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Peter Freuchen

Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (2 de febrero de 1886 – 2 de septiembre de 1957) fue un explorador danés, escritor, periodista, cineasta y antropólogo.

Pasó gran parte de su vida en Thule, Groenlandia, viviendo con los inuit. Trabajó junto a Knud Rasmussen, durante la expedición que cruzó Groenlandia hasta el Pacífico.

En 1910, Knud Rasmussen y Peter Freuchen establecieron la Estación Comercial Thule, de la que Freuchen fue gobernador entre 1913 y 1920, en Cabo York (Uummannaq), Groenlandia.

En 1920 se unió a los socialdemócratas de Dinamarca y escribió en su periódico Politiken. Durante la segunda guerra mundial, Freuchen se unió a la resistencia danesa contra los nazis, por lo que fue detenido y condenado a muerte por las tropas de ocupación alemana. Logró escapar y huir a Suecia.

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Arctic man

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Danish explorer Peter Freuchen photographed alongside his wife in 1947.

A real-life Most Interesting Man in the World. 

Full story here: https://dieworkwear.com/post/182439038184/the-other-kind-of-cashmere

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illustrations for a project at school: THE HERO

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Most interesting man in the world? Meet Peter Freuchen

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Scroll through a Facebook feed any day of the week, and you’re bound to find exhortations to live each day to the fullest, but few of us have gone to the lengths Peter Freuchen did to fulfill that goal.

Here’s just a brief taste from Jason Kottke:

Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. 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… [and] once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces…

And his wife was no slouch, either.

Forget motivational mountain-top scenes; we’ll settle for a full-sized poster of this guy.

Full story at Kottke.

Fascinating people.

Photo credit: Irving Penn

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