Terris Moore (April 11, 1908 – November 7, 1993) was an explorer, mountaineer, light plane pilot, and the second president of the University of Alaska.
Their small party (also including Arthur Emmons and Jack Young) also carefully surveyed the peak and settled a controversy about its height.
During World War II Moore served as a consultant to the U.S. military on arctic and mountain conditions, and as a member of the Alaskan Test Expedition in 1942.
After the war, he was president of the New England Society of Natural History, which was deeply enmeshed with the Boston Museum of Science, headed by Bradford Washburn, also a noted climber of Alaskan peaks.
Moore served three years as the president of the University of Alaska, starting in 1949, and during that time he also established records for high-altitude airplane landings.