Explorer Reaches Peak Before 89th
<i> Associated Press</i>
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Only days shy of his 89th birthday, explorer Norman Vaughn reached the summit of the 10,300-foot-high Antarctic mountain that bears his name.
Vaughn, who turns 89 Monday, and his team spent Friday night atop Mount Vaughan, expedition organizers said Saturday.
In 1928, Vaughan joined Adm. Richard E. Byrd’s South Pole expedition as a 22-year-old Harvard dropout and became the first American to drive dogs in the Antarctic.
It was Byrd who named the Queen Maud Mountains peak in Vaughan’s honor.
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