An American patient was evacuated from Antarctica in a daring medical rescue, flying in near-total darkness and minus 43°C (−45.4°F) conditions before being safely transferred to a hospital in New Zealand

An Australian team has pulled off a rare and daring midwinter aero-medical evacuation of a United States expeditioner in Antarctica.

An Australian air crew has flown an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter rescue.