Buzz Aldrin said he was evacuated from the South Pole last week because he became short of breath and began showing signs of altitude sickness. Because of the thick ice that blankets Antarctica, the South Pole sits at an elevation of 2,835 meters (9,300 feet). “South Pole here I come!” Aldrin wrote on Twitter at the time. My longtime friend,” Aldrin wrote. “She beat me to the South Pole by one day.”Korp, his manager, wrote on Twitter that “Buzz is ok.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 04, 2016 07:37 UTC