The hardest part of piloting a bush plane to the South Pole, says a Canadian flight crew, was not landing in complete darkness. What conditions did you encounter on the South Pole flight? Greatest fear was running out of soup: Canadian crew downplays dangerous rescue mission to South Pole The Calgary-based crew that flew to a South Pole research station on a daring medical mission sang songs and snacked on hot soup during their perilous trip. It was forecast to be quite cold in the South Pole, around -70 C, so we were hoping to get there before that. McCrae: I think everyone was quite happy we arrived at the South Pole.

Source: National Post July 06, 2016 13:07 UTC