Daring South Pole Rescue

A dramatic rescue mission is taking place to evacuate a worker from the U.S. science station, Amundsen-Scott. Winter has just started in Antarctica making flying conditions very difficult, not helped by the fact that the sun will not rise now until September.

Newsday's Krupa Padhy found out more from Athena Dinar, spokesperson for the British Antarctic Survey who's in their headquarters in Cambridge, in England.

(Photo: A plane lands at Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in September 2003 to rescue an American man who was ill. Credit: AFP/Getty)