![]() ![]() In temperatures cold enough to coagulate jet fuel, 41 people were living and working in perpetual exterior darkness under a polar dome designed to house a staff of 17. ![]() And the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station hardly provided the best of circumstances. Under the best of circumstances, women with her type and stage of breast cancer have a 50/50 chance of survival. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the world, Nielsen’s odds didn’t look particularly good. Her ex-husband, with whom she had gone through a bitter divorce, told reporters that Nielsen was a bad mother who had abandoned her children and was probably making up the whole thing to get attention. ![]() Nielsen’s family and friends were soon fielding a barrage of interview requests back in the United States. Despite Nielsen’s request that publicity be avoided, her employer, a subcontractor to the National Science Foundation, was overwhelmed by media interest in the “South Pole doctor.” Although NSF didn’t release her name, reporters quickly filled in the blanks from information that was released. ![]()
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