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Gatsby
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 Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject: Ralph Plaisted, polar exporer, dead at 80 |
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Ralph Plaisted; First to Reach North Pole by Surface Travel
By Joe Holley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 12, 2008; B07
Ralph S. Plaisted, 80, a Minnesota insurance salesman who relied on a snowmobile to get him to the North Pole in 1968 and became the first person who indisputably reached the pole by surface travel, died Sept. 8 at his home in Wyoming, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul. He had an apparent heart attack, said his stepdaughter, Leslie Tobkin. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103515_2.html |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Ralph Plaisted, polar exporer, dead at 80 |
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Ralph Plaisted; First to Reach North Pole by Surface Travel
....had an apparent heart attack... |
Lived just long enough to learn that the polar ice cap has melted to the point that the waters are navigatable on multiple sides: we've seen the last to reach the north pole by surface travel. |
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