nine photographs of the dashing FRIDTJOF WEDEL-JARLSBERG NANSEN (1861 - 1930), Norwegian polymath (explorer, zoologist, writer, sportsman, scientist, and winner of the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize, among other awards)
Baddest of badasses. First to ski across the Greenland ice shield plateau, discovered the Northwest Passage by locking his boat (the world famous FRAM) in the ice and drifting for 2 Years, invented the Nansen bottle (used to collect water samples from various ocean depths for scientific analysis), pioneer in studying neurons and how they transmit electrical impulses, Olympic class skier, helped create the League of Nations (precursor to the UN), peace activist, mentor to Amundsen, ETC. Honestly one of the towering figures of the 20th century.
