Norman Vaughan, 100, Musher and Antarctic Explorer
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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 War II, and in 13 Iditarods, Alaska’s grueling 1,150-mile sled race – the first of them at age 70.
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