![]() ![]() ![]() In order for her to survive several months until conditions will allow planes to land and rescue her from the continent, the doctors concur that she will need to begin chemotherapy treatments immediately. Communicating via e-mail with doctors in the United States, she learns that the cancer is aggressive and rapid-growing. Nielsen discovers a lump in her breast and is forced to self-administer a biopsy. ![]() Nielsen is solely responsible for the mental and physical health of all fellow inhabitants stranded at the station through the winter. Joining a team of researchers, construction workers and support staff, Dr. Conditions at the station will be far from manageable, with winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero. ![]() Jerri Nielsen in the true story of the cancer-stricken physician stranded at a South Pole research station who, under dangerous circumstances, and with the help of co-workers, treats her own illness.īased on the New York Times best-selling book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, the movie tells the story of how, in 1999, 46-year-old physician Nielsen decides to leave Ohio and spend a year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, one of the most remote and perilous places on Earth. Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole is a 2003 made-for-television film starring Susan Sarandon as Dr. ![]()
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