Peter Freuchen, Larger than Life Explorer

Arctic explorer, author, and anthropologist

Peter Freuchen was one of the most exciting explorers of the 20th century. Among his many adventures, he explored Greenland, lived with Inuits, fought against German occupation, and once escaped death by digging out of a blanket of snow with a dagger made from his own feces.

Freuchen was born in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark in February, 1886. He attended th…