Last year at this time I was on a military flight to Antarctica for the U.S Antarctic Program to stay a year at the South Pole and McMurdo.
I was really looking forward to seeing the Southern Lights.

Unfortunately the physcial and phyc. exams are very intense. I passed both and was packed and on a C-131 heading out when a Government Doctor called me back because he found a 1mm kidney stone, (very small) that he initially missed on CT scan.

Said he didnt want to risk it because if it decided to pass there would be no way to evacuate in the extreme winter.

I was really looking forward to being just 1 of 50 people on a Continent the size of the United States and Mexico put together.

Oh well. They said I could get it removed and come back.

There is a cool image database on the site, there is a picture of Southern lights on there. www.polar.org