Wednesday the last flight took off from the South Pole. Remaining on the base: over-wintering researchers isolated with their instruments. The cold and approaching night are one last reminder of the cruel price some explorers had to pay for our species to expand.

Regenerative medicine is gaining ground with leaps and bounds. Simple organs are grown (or printed) in the labs. A video, showing a man who regrew his fingertip, could point to the future of frostbite recovery.

Finding the perfect partner is hard. She wants an all-inclusive in the Bahamas and he wants to ski unsupported to the South Pole and back. That's OK with Norwegian record-holder Aleks Gamme who's resourceful and gets along with just about anyone.

He was the dark horse in a celebrity packed anniversary season. ExWeb checked in with Aleks Gamme for details about the surprising end to his expedition which cost him a record but had the polar community jump to their feet in unanimous acclaim.

The Fuchs Foundation selects Science teachers to go on expeditions to the (Sub-)Arctic and Antarctic. Following expeditions that have been to the Antarctic in 2007 and 2010 and on Greenland in 2009, they now call for science teachers to apply for their 2013 Greenland expedition.

Full but shorter trips trending, kiting blowing up, a few world records, and an unofficial one. The preliminary stats for all South Pole expeditions are up. Other lists will be updated in the coming weeks. Here some reflections from the past season, 100 years after Amundsen's historic trip.

After more than 2 decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the largest of Antarctica’s nearly 400 subglacial lakes, hidden under the ice for some 20 million years. It is kept from freezing by 12,366ft (3,769m) of ice; keeping in heat generated by geothermal energy underneath.

After 5013 Km and 74 days kiting on Antarctica, Belgians Dixie and Sam have called the exedition off and asked for an airlift from the ice.

Belgians Dixie and Sam passed the 5,000km mark on their Antarctic tour. Last men on the ice, their future is brighter than that of the pioneers dying on their way back from the pole 100 years ago.

Season folding, pictures from Antarctica show evidence of a hard fight. Some will recover soon, some will have to live with their "souvenirs" for the rest of their lives. Lucky enough, modern logistics spared all skiers the high price paid one hundred years ago by the British pioneers.

Australian James Castrission (29) and Justin Jones (28) reached Hercules Inlet today. Meeting with Norwegian Aleksander Gamme (35) the three skied the last meters together for the longest yet Antarctica skiing quest of this kind and an unusual display of the Spirit of Adventure.

Ryan Waters is one of the few Americans making headlines in Antarctic skiing, a world decidedly still "occupied" mostly by the Norwegians and Brits. ExWeb's Angela Benavides checked in with the mountaineer for comments on the current South Pole anniversary season.

"Aleksander has now arrived at Hercules Inlet after 87 days on the ice," the Norwegian skier's home team just reported. Holding one kilometer from the coast, Aleks is waiting for Jonesy and Cas who hope to get there on Thursday. And word just in that also Seb and Eric arrived HI.

Reaching the South Pole yesterday Antarctica marks the end station for Swedish Everest climber Johan Ernst Nilson, who has spent every day since last spring on a great non-stop Pole2Pole hike. Nilson was dropped on the North Pole and skied to Canada, from where he biked South.