Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (born 1927)

Ralph Plaisted

American explorer (1927 - 2008)

Ralph Summers Plaisted was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making…