Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each January 1, scientists and staff at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station gather outside on the ice. This is not to celebrate ...

Brendan Fisher, left, and Troy Leighton pose at the South Pole with a sign Fisher made with steel from the Mackinac Bridge deck grating, listing the distance to the Mackinac Bridge from Antarctica.

Brendan Fisher (L) also made a sign from the bridge metal to show the distance between the South Pole and the bridge: more than 9,000 miles. On Monday, tens of thousands of people will walk across the ...

ST. IGNACE — An iconic piece of Michigan infrastructure has found a new home in the 9,300-foot-thick sheet of ice that marks the South Pole. Brendan Fisher, a heavy equipment mechanic for the United ...