Gotta hand it once again to NPR for doing
a great story about a fascinating individual. The name, I am sure, will almost certainly not be familiar to you. But
adventurer Norman Vaughan is living history. Vaughan is the last surviving member of Admiral Richard Byrd’s 1928
expedition to the South Pole. 1928? Yes. This Monday Vaughhan turns 100 years old.
And just 11 years ago,
at the ripe age of 89, Vaughan revisited Antarctica to summit the 10,000-foot peak Bryd named after him. Consider this:
when Vaughan was born in 1905, Teddy Roosevelt was president. Yes…not FDR. Teddy. Vaughan won a place on the Byrd
expedition by being a master of sled dogs. Self-taught, the helped move 650 tons of supplies by dog sled to a base camp
where Byrd would launch his attempt to be the first to fly over the Pole. Cool.