Mountain Top 100th Birthday Party Planned by Famous Antarctica Explorer
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Posted on Jun 23, 2005, 2 p.m.
By Bill Freeman
Norman Vaughan is 99 years old and when I interviewed him it was like talking to someone half his age. The sole survivor of Admiral Byrd
To begin with, Mount Vaughan, is no ordinary mountain&emdash;10,302 feet high, it is located 450 miles inland (in Antarctica, of course) where it towers above the Polar Plateau alongside the huge Ross Ice Shelf. Just getting there is an adventure, never mind the long glaciers on both sides of the mountain or the 30 and 50 degree slopes. To climb it, you need to “rope up” in case you slip into one of the many crevasses and disappear forever.
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