Letters From Antarctica

	Life on the South Pole is far from immune to the earthly rhythms of curiosity, wonder, sorrow and a consciousness of man's relative size against the majestic backdrop of nature's constant changes. CBSNews.com's Man on the South Pole, Dr. Robert Thompson reported on the struggle to keep equilibrium during the long 1999-2000 austral winter.
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Dr. Robert Thompson was on assignment at the South Pole to replace Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician with cancer who was dramatically airlifted from the South Pole research facility for medical treatment in the U.S. Read about Dr. Thompson's experiences in the coldest and most uninhabited place on Earth in his Letters From Antarctica.