Undoubtedly the Most Interesting Man in the World: Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen with his wife, artist Dagmar Cohn. NYC. 1947

Peter Freuchen (February 2, 1886 – September 2, 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist. He is notable for his role in Arctic exploration, especially the Thule Expeditions.

Dagmar Cohn (April 25, 1907 – March 9, 1991) was a Danish illustrator, author and editor, considered a top fashion illustrator, working for magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Freuchen is certainly a candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. 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), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926 and 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, 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. Source.

edit: Here he is, equally fashionable and with with both legs intact, with fellow explorer Knud Rasmussen on their 1,000 mile dogsled expedition in 1912.

Rasmussen died after contracting food poisoning from eating kiviak, a traditional wintertime Inuit food from Greenland where about 500 auks are packed into the seal skin intact, including beaks, feet and feathers. As much air as possible is removed from the seal skin before it is sewn up and sealed with seal fat, which repels flies. A large rock is then placed on top to keep the air content low. Over the course of seven months, the birds ferment, and are then eaten during the Greenlandic winter, particularly on birthdays and weddings.

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