The first medical evacuation flight to the South Pole station in the middle of winter has been launched. I cannot share more details at this time due to patient and pilot privacy, but I can share that I am personally safe. I hope to be able to share more details of the rescue in the future, and especially hope that the rescue will be hugely successful.
The NSF has released a press release here:
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138914
Here is our group photo of (most of) our crew here at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station taken earlier this winter:
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