Peter Freuchen: The Incredible Life of the Arctic Explorer

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[@Biographics]

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[@sparky6086]

Eating a Polar Bear's liver causes a fatal overdose of a nutrient. I can't remember which?

[@jamesmartin6050]

@@sparky6086 Eating polar bear liver causes Vitamin A poisoning or acute hypervitaminosis A as it is also called

[@sparky6086]

@@jamesmartin6050 That's it! You jogged my memory. Thanks.

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

Good job on the video, I liked it! Peter Freuchen was a bad ass.

[@PleiadianDreams]

22 gigaton ice melted, it rains in the arctic circle.

[@mochtegerndane7097]

Fun fact: My grandfather knew Freuchen and would visit him on his Island. (They both loved to hunt). My mum was a little girl then - and found it scary but interesting to knock on his wooden leg.

[@ericcartman9594]

Did you grow up in greenland?

[@mochtegerndane7097]

@@ericcartman9594 No, but as many Danes I also have Inuit in my family...on both sides.

[@seansopata5121]

"what are you famous for?" Person 1: "oh I'm an actor" Person 2: "I'm a singer" This dude: "Made a chisel out of my own poo"

[@mechasentai]

Epic epicness of epicosity!

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore" - Andre Gide

[@osirisgem]

"Is quoting someone else in the biography someone wholly irrelevant something you do make your self appear thoughtful and deep or something you do to convince yourself that you are." - Me just now to youtube douche attempting to feign profundity.

[@stevecosmolove1045]

@@osirisgem good job, now you became the douche. -Steve Cosmolove

[@stevecosmolove1045]

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. -Nietzsche

[@DEADG6D]

@@osirisgem ur a clown

[@ulester3092]

“You are either a smart fella or a fart smella” -Confucius

[@skyden24195]

Biographics, you find the most random and fascinating people to discuss. This was another extremely interesting, and bizarre person that I had not ever before known about. Keep them coming.

[@RuthlessTragedy]

I completely agree, i always thought late Explorers were cool but i never really got to know one as well as i did in this one! Keep it up Biographics' Writers & Researchers! You too Simon xD

[@stj971]

I read his biography a while ago. Absolutely fascinating.

[@SotonSam]

Exploration, the North Western Passage, the Artic and Antarctic and Greenland have fascinated me my whole life. I would love to explore those places. Billions of years of natural history.

[@freeagent8225]

I'm the same, lived out my dreams, spent 3 months in Greenland and 18 days in Svalbard. Dreams come true if your single😅.

[@Hollows1997]

Rumour has it that Dos Equis’ most interesting man in the world was in awe of Peter Feuchen.

[@paddyneill1964]

Maybe , but could Peter speak French …… in Russian ? 😎

[@kathybell616]

But is he in awe with him while drinking a dos equis?

[@Wardner213]

Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)

[@Apje66]

Ip man would be cool indeed

[@TheNanze]

Thank you for taking this up. Best regards from a Greenlander in Denmark.

[@trj1442]

Excellent show Bio Team. I'd never heard of Freuchen. May I suggest Nicholas Baudin, another amazing unsung explorer.

[@tootingcarmoon532]

Small correction, the king who founded half of his expedition was Christian IX, the grandfather of Christian X.

[@kattekaren]

As a Dane I actually didn't know much about this man, only his name. Thank you for educating me Simon :) As for the pronounciations .. well, A+ for effort ;)

[@nozecone]

Thanks. A few comments .... 1) Perhaps you weren't aware, as Freuchen, AFAIK, only mentions it once in passing in one of his books, as a necessary detail to some anecdote, that he was 7-foot tall - in some of those photos, you can see that he towers over other people. 2) "Inuit" is the plural; "Inuk" is the singular, so it is an error to speak of "Inuits". 3) Rasmussen not only grew up in Greenland, but was half-Inuit - a native-speaker of Inuttitut and fully conversant with the culture, which made him particularly qualified for his anthropological research expedition with Freuchen.

[@nozecone]

@UCSzgwHMDIbIGKuzYz38UVyQ Thanks for that background on the family; wasn't aware that Peter Ittinuar was Freuchen's grandson.

[@nozecone]

@@albigensiac3206 Interesting! Puts me in mind of an anecdote which I believe I got from Freuchen - whether it was him or someone else, the narrator happened to be in a coastal Inuit village when Amundsen, the great polar explorer, made a stop. There was in the village a white man with an Inuk wife and several children - he wanted to leave with Amundsen, but Amundsen refused to take him, later explaining, "I was not going to help a man abandon his wife and children."

[@thegunslinger1363]

Could you cover George Carlin? A philosopher with a sense of humour.

[@nejm612]

Excellent

[@amandajones661]

Yes!!!

[@amandajones661]

Up vote this one!! 😃

[@Codex70]

Yes I'm so happy you decided to do this video. Peter frauchen was just so badass and brave

[@kelerews]

I cry like a baby when internet is down.... this guy made a chisel with poop and lost a foot

[@sparky6086]

Eating a Polar Bear's liver causes a fatal overdose of a nutrient. I can't remember which?

[@eadweard.]

Urine?

[@alfakobe9794]

Vitamin A

[@sparky6086]

@@eadweard. Someone just jogged my memory. Eating Polar Bear liver causes an overdose of vitiman A.

[@davidmurrell5143]

@@sparky6086 Any predator really, even eating human liver is not a good idea.

[@bjornodin]

@@davidmurrell5143 there are other reasons why that might not be a good idea 🤔 Now that I think about it, I'm wondering if that's possibly an error in Silence of the Lambs???

[@janetizzy6741]

This touch, about the "Arctic waste"

[@tome57a]

Erichsen had “the gall to go to the beach and bathe in the company of a woman?” Sign me up for his next expedition!

[@Rubenvu]

Simon's beard looks like he's been in a one-direction wind for too long

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Please do one about William of Orange.

[@pyromania1018]

Or his troublesome cousin William of Blue Lagoon. I personally find that to be more appealing than Orange--it's so warm and friendly.

[@irradiatedghoul945]

This is what being Viking is all about 🤘🏻

[@clusterhunt]

No

[@arrow1414]

@@clusterhunt He means in spirit the daring and will to seek new things are the same. The only difference is he didn't steal, enslave and kill people.😊

[@slcpunk2740]

@@arrow1414 no he clearly meant the freezing your poop part ❄️💩

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Early years 4:20 - Chapter 2 - The 1st trip 8:00 - Mid roll ads 9:20 - Chapter 3 - A new life in greenland 12:45 - Chapter 4 - The poop chisel story 16:20 - Chapter 5 - Life after the artic

[@osirisgem]

Wow, anyone who need chapters for a 19 min extremely abridged biography really can't conceive of the concept of priorities I imagine.

[@WildWes]

Read his book Vagrant Viking and was inspired enough to name my channel off of it. He’s one of my ancestors and lived with my great grandfather in Sweden during WWII for refuge.

[@nicholask7347]

Your channel looks interesting. Subscribed to watch later.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Absolute Mad Lad, he seems to be.

[@zanmarinic]

Great video as always! A great video would be of Dušan "duško" Popov - the inspiration for James Bond.

[@adammiden5629]

This guys would’ve been a crazy teacher in social studies.

[@matthewfield2208]

Wow. I just came across a photo of this guy on Instagram three days and was reminded of his story and thought to myself “ Biographics should do an episode on him….” and here it is!!

[@twocvbloke]

"You call that a knife? This is a knife!!!" "No, that's a lump of excrement!!" :P

[@nils-christiannilsen7115]

Hans Egde was not danish he was norwegian. His father was danish but Egde was born and raised in Norway.

[@FortyHyena]

*30 seconds into this video* "Oh! It's the poop knife guy!"

[@ronwilkins4632]

Stool tool. Stool cutlery. All heavy sh*t.

[@ph8429]

I am so glad you did an episode on Freuchen!

[@sauna-man3024]

Ooh. I've been waiting a long time for this one.

[@KrisGK96]

Fun fact, I was haunted by his ex-wife, Navaraana in Upernavik, the room she died in was really creepy, as if someone always stared at you, and sometimes we were downstairs (Where the captain of Upernavik lived) and you could hear steps on the 2nd floor, but we were all downstairs, very regular thing as well, probably still haunted to this day.

[@bretthess6376]

Very interesting. I once lived in a ghost town (well, close to it; once 900 people, down to 150 people, and no stores or businesses at all). One of the rooms in my house was haunted. I saw flickering shapes and whispering sounds on a regular basis. It was very strange. I was happy to move away from that whole area. Some of the other experiences I had there were much weirder.

[@geoffreyraleigh1674]

Bought his biography a couple of years ago. Amazing life.

[@musiclover01ization]

Great video. Freuchen lived an interesting life.

[@tonypintarelli877]

Exploring the "frozen wastes"... nicely done. ;) Now, please do Sir Ernest Shackleton.

[@surstromming8065]

And Douglas Mawson!

[@Ahmed-lz6rs]

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[@leonamcconnell6471]

You can say that again

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[@robertjoshua4351]

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[@marshallshaw8528]

It won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Mr Ronald Dickson

[@hoangkimviet8545]

Both two poles were explored by Scandinavians.

[@brett4264]

Good genetics for the arctic and Antarctic up there. People born near the equator wouldn't have (statistically) the qualities to visit cold climes.

[@nozecone]

@@brett4264 Although Robert Peary's right-hand man, Matthew Henson, was African-American ......

[@leftpinkytoe8363]

@@nozecone “statistically” he was an outlier

[@arnarninson4413]

And I thought I was the only person who froze their poo into chisels. Glad to know I’m not alone any more 👍👍👍

[@roberthickerty390]

It used to be part of the education of all Canadians. It was removed from the curriculum in 1962.

[@davidbrennan660]

The mechanical strength a jobby should never be underestimated, they break toilets all the time.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@creature57]

Sorry to be a pain but.....your first reference to the King of Denmark sponsoring one of the expeditions was to show King Christian X but that's incorrect. King Christian's father - King Frederick VIII - must have given half the money needed because he was king at that time. His reign was 1906 - 1912. His son, King Christian X reigned from 1912 - 1947. This is a research project of mine. Love the Danish royal family.

[@rikurodriguesneto6043]

Richard Francis Burton is another one of these superheroes..

[@nickw7619]

You should do one about another arctic explorer, Clifford MacGregor. I actually have a Tub filled with his personal effects including the bill of sale for the schooner they took on the expedition

[@altinmares8363]

Please make videos about -Presocratic philosophers (Thales of Miletus,Empedocles,Parmenides,Heraclitus,Anaximenes,Zeno of Citium) -Al Kindi -Al Farabi -Ibn Battuta

[@jamesmartin6050]

Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war. Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer. Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II. Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure and one of the most important in Irish history. George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems. Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Irish poet, playwright and translator who won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature and wrote a poem about The Tollund Man comparing his cause of death to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) - Irish poet, dramatist and writer with an interest in the occult who helped found the Abbey Theatre and was a senator for the Irish Free State. He is one of the most important historical figures in Irish history. Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) - husband and consort to Queen Elizabeth who served in the navy as a young man, serving in the Second World War. He died recently so it would be a good choice. Jordan Belfort (born 1962) - former stockbroker, author, motivational speaker and convicted felon who committed fraud via stock market manipulation. His book was the inspiration behind the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013. Andrew Cunanan (1969-1997) - spree killer responsible for five murders before his suicide via gunshot. His victims include Gianna Versace and Lee Miglin. Lee Miglin (1924-1997) - American business tycoon, real estate developer and philanthropist who was spree killer, Andrew Cunanan’s third murder victim. “The Count of Saint Germain” (1691 or 1712 -died 1784) - European Adventurer who achieved prominence in high society in the 1700’s. His real name is unknown while his background is obscure. He claimed to be the son of Prince Francis II Rakoczi of Transylvania. He was arrested for suspicion of espionage during the Jacobite rebellion but was released without charge. Julia d’Aunigny (1670 or 1673 -died 1707) - 17th century French opera singer who was known for her flamboyant lifestyle. Her father was a secretary to the master of the horse to King Louis XIV. She was a keen sword fighter, cross-dressed and tried to run away with a female lover after killing a man in a duel. She died at the age of 33. Past American presidents, British prime ministers, monarchs and Roman emperors would be good as well.

[@Jabotism]

Do Thomas Sankara or Patrice Lumumba next.

[@chamaleon1963]

after this incredible character you cannot fail to talk about Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and the journey of the Endurance

[@York22]

always loved your videos. Every single one is fantastic. Can you please do a video on Walt Whitman?

[@matthewdopler8997]

What a absolute legend.

[@thebitgamer2425]

I’d love to watch a video on Karl Donitz

[@freeagent8225]

They had the best uniforms😅.

[@PRASHANTGUPTA-cs6ww]

Bro how many channels Simon have!

[@jeremiahwillett3822]

Please do Cesar Chavez next

[@oink4466]

He wrote one of the best books I ever read.

[@facina3390]

So nice to see a thumbnail for this video without having to see Simon making a goofy face. He has this constant look of just discovering what a reach around is.

[@bretthess6376]

OK, that made me laugh. Rude but rather accurate.

[@Steveirwin4477]

Could you do a video on Charles bukowski he was a writer a novelist and a poet or John Denver thank you

[@FTA4evr]

One of my favorite Freuchen stories!

[@amandajones661]

He was a really awesome dude!

[@GsusZealot]

"...poop chisel story...in the ANNALS of polar exploration..." XD That is some world class writing right there!

[@josi4251]

From an ugly babyhood, he seemed to grow to be a handsome young fellow. The poo thing, while yuck, was a genius idea in a bad situation.

[@danicalifornia505]

Mohammed Zahir Shah. The last king of Afghanistan and someone who the United States decided to not put back on the throne instead wanted to try democracy.

[@flatline9737]

he was such a badass explorere, you've only covered a small bit of his life story, i highly recommend people to do a little more research.

[@chrislb2308]

Just now learned about this guy on History in Pictures on FB

[@godisfake78]

"Less stringent views on beach etiquette." That made me laugh.

[@ir34p3ri5]

Liking the new title graphics

[@thcdreams654]

How do you dig yourself out of a crappy situation?

[@enrkm85]

Have to wonder if Kurt got some inspiration for Macready.

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

Incredible ... and had never heard of him. Thanks very much

[@tacourf1]

Why does the thumbnail pick of peter look like James Mcavoy?

[@donaldkelly3983]

Excellent profile of a man I knew nothing about!

[@charlesrovira5707]

I have his _Book of the Seven Seas_ ©1957 (before ISBN numbers, [I was 4 years old,]) in which he mentions the *_unproven, new_* theory of what came to be known as _plate tectonics._ ([expletive deleted] I feel *_old._* ) They had just discovered mid-ocean ridges.

[@benjamindouglas862]

Like Dostolsky said in the Underground Man, "Living past 40 is impolite."

[@surstromming8065]

I heard somewhere that Freuchen would falsely state that he was Jewish in an effort to determine whether a person was anti-semitic.

[@francisgeorge1539]

Can you do a video on George Mallory

[@Jammo1978]

It's Mad that Polar Bears liver being poisonous is mentioned here as the 1st I ever heard of this was only the day before yesterday 😉

[@Melissa0774]

Whatever happened to his kids from his first marriage?

[@berndbernd3464]

best advert for a fibre rich diet :D

[@horsebox5138]

Damn this guy is badass

[@hugocampbell9209]

please do a video on Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener.

[@evandempster6460]

Simon, we need an Ernest Shackleton video!

[@realdeal9632]

You guys should do mike day the navy seal

[@matthewgigs3456]

Could you make a video on Zachary Taylor next?

[@enouk2]

Hey Simon ever thought about doing an episode on berny eckelston the ringmaster of formula one

[@rredeyee2460]

Were the pincers he uses to lob off his toes made of the poo too?... THESE ARE THE THINGS I NEED TO KNOW!

[@CarolSteinfeld]

The first story differs from another version of that story

[@badeanden2381]

I live on Peter freuchens road in Denmark

[@jordenpenitch1532]

Why did I get the poop shovel question right

[@Hardwhack5]

Would like to see a video about the life of timur one the distant rulers of the Mongols

[@dustinwilton5343]

Wait a minute; so that’s NOT James McAvoy?

[@carolyncasner4806]

That's why I clicked. I saw the thumb and thought James McAvoy was going into some explorer movie 😄

[@MrTylersmash]

It's sad to me that as much as this guy did, this is the first I'm hearing about him.

[@BasilTheBased]

Could you make a video on Tacitus? One of if nothing the greatest Roman historians depending on who you ask. I think it would be cool, there’s not a lot of videos about his life from what I could find.

[@glocksmith226]

Make a video about abdul nasser

[@angelakilpatrick6412]

I wish you were my history teacher!!! It would have so much easier through school 😊😊😊😊😊

[@susanbedingfield4661]

What happened to his two children?

[@mikeharris50]

There are many more arctic explorers with even more fascinating stories. The one I can think of is that of Mauston. You might want to delve into that man's life.

[@benjamin1031]

Do you mean Douglas Mawson? He was an Australian Antarctic Explorer/Scientist and has some incredible stories.

[@mikeharris50]

@@benjamin1031 Yes, thanks for the correction. I thought he was from New Zealand

[@Face2theScr33n]

5:14 Look! It's Till Lindemann!

[@Rich-fr2yv]

Genuinely surprised you haven't done a video on John DeLorean yet

[@jensalstrup8060]

He founded the Danish branch of The Adventure's Club. A club of many tales, some of them true 😊 I am happy to have been there for about 12 years, but no more.

[@Rakeshgupta-iy7lm]

Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and on which the movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson is based on. Thank you.

[@mechasentai]

Suggestion: Bernhard Goetz the “Subway Vigilante.”