This past year, Norman Vaughan had an especially nice and unusual 89th birthday celebration. Vaughan has been itching to get back to Antartica to climb his mountain ever since.
Some dreams take longer to fulfill than others.
At 89, Norman Vaughan has led a life of adventure most of us can only dream about. His escapades began in 1927 when he dropped out of Harvard to accompany Admiral Bryd on this trek to the South Pole. Since then, he has competed in the first demonstration dogsled race in the 1932 Winter Olympics, recovered one of the Allied Forces top secret instruments, a Norden bombsight, from under the German's noses during World War II, and competed in his first Iditarod at the age of 70. Through it all, there's been a line of strong willed, well-muscled northern sled dogs leading the way. Vaughan turned to his college roommates and proclaimed his intention to accompany the famous explorer on the expedition.