On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I remember we were in the bunk about two or three o'clock in the morning, and somebody came into the barracks and said, 'You're ...

Conrad "Gus" Shinn stared at the old black-and-white photograph of sturdy men in thick military cold-weather gear standing at the frozen bottom of the world. Shinn, 93 years old, is in that picture ...

"I remember we were in the bunk about two or three o'clock in the morning, and somebody came into the barracks and said, 'You're going to South Pole at 0800' or something," said Conrad Shinn in a 1999 ...