He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.
![image showing Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, fashion illustrator Dagmar Cohn [1947]](91860e55-eb65-5e68-84e6-f716cc7e7d9a.jpg)
PainMatrix on January 23rd, 2018 at 22:10 UTC »
He was 6’7”
-- Kottke, Peter Freuchen
Cyber_Connor on January 23rd, 2018 at 22:31 UTC »
Absolute unit
Sip_py on January 23rd, 2018 at 22:53 UTC »
Last time this was posted, someone pointed out this dude was in an avalanche, froze a turd and used it to "dig" his way out.