Some people are just made for adventure. The early explorers, who subjected themselves to privation, unknown elements and territories unheard of, left volumes of tales that inspired the next ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — He is a world-class adventurer who spends his days in bed, relying on a caretaker to help him with mundane activities such as walking. But Norman Vaughan is determined to celebrate ...

ANCHORAGE — He is a world-class adventurer who now spends days on end in bed at his Anchorage apartment, relying on a caretaker to help him with mundane activities such as walking. But Norman Vaughan ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Norman Vaughan, a dog handler and driver in Adm. Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole, died Friday, just a few days after turning 100 years old. Vaughan died at ...

Editor's Note: Vaughan died on Dec. 23, 2005, just four days after his 100th birthday. Adventurer Norman Vaughan, the last surviving member of Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole, ...

Norman Vaughan, who died Friday having just turned 100, was a lifelong dog musher who drove sleds on Admiral Richard Byrd’s 1928-30 expedition, at the 1932 Olympics, on rescue missions during World ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Norman Vaughan, a dog handler and driver in Adm. Richard Byrd’s 1928 expedition to the South Pole, died Friday just a few days after turning 100 years old. Vaughan died at ...

ANCHORAGE -- Norman Vaughan, a dog handler and driver in Adm. Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole, died Dec. 23 in an Anchorage hospital, just a few days after turning 100. Mr. Vaughan's ...

This time last year, Norman Vaughan, the huggable 88-year-old polar explorer, was on his way to Antarctica on an expedition to dogsled several hundred miles and then climb Mount Vaughan, the ...

ANCHORAGE — Norman Vaughan, a dog handler and driver in Adm. Richard Byrd’s 1928 expedition to the South Pole, died Friday just a few days after turning 100 years old. Mr. Vaughan died at Providence ...

It had been a long evening's presentation as the mushers, snowmachiners, support crews and others gathered in the Nenana community center listened intently. The trail boss, musher coordinator and ...

Hey, I was there to help, right? Right there in the kitchenette loaned us by the Roosevelt Hotel in Anchorage. My wife, Pam, ran the headquarters for the Iditarod Dogsled Race, and it was the second ...