Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix
This is the kind of DIY that you probably don’t want to try at home, especially if your home is in Antarctica.
If you think House and the guy who James Franco played in 127 Hours are tough, you haven’t heard of Leonid Rogozov.
In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of. “But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarctic colony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible. Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. And there was one further problem: he was the only physician on the base.”
