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"Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, Danish explorer during early 1900s. The coat he is wearing is made of polar bear fur, he also wore a beard, rode a dogsled 1,000 kilometers across the Greenland ice cap in the 1910s, killed a wolf with his bare hands, escaped a Nazi death warrant at the height of the Third Reich, amputated his own gangrenous toes with a pair of pliers, no anesthesia, also starred in a Oscar-winning movie - which was based on a book that he wrote. He played the villain in a movie that was loosely based around his own autobiography. Freuchen published thirty books, founded two Adventurer’s Clubs, his biography is called The Vagrant Viking. He was once caught in a blizzard and ended up being buried alive in an inescapable cocoon of ice so tightly packed around him that he could barely move. After 30 hours trapped in a frosty tomb the size of a large suitcase, Dane escaped certain death by molding his own shit into a fucking knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice, then crawled another three hours back to base camp like something out of The Revenant. He was also the fifth person to win the jackpot in the TV game show The $64,000 Question.

"Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who wore a fucking awesome coat made of polar bear fur, rocked a seriously epic beard, rode a dogsled 1,000 kilometers across the Greenland ice cap in the 1910s, killed a wolf with his bare hands, escaped a Nazi death warrant at the height of the Third Reich, amputated his own fucking gangrenous toes with a pair of pliers (and no anesthesia), and starred in a goddamned Oscar-winning movie - which was based on a book that he wrote, and this guy was so over-the-top awesome that he played the fucking villain in a movie that was loosely based around his own autobiography. He was also the fifth person to win the jackpot in the TV game show The $64,000 Question, published thirty books, founded two Adventurer’s Clubs, and his biography is called The Vagrant Viking. Need more proof? Check this shit. One time he was caught in a blizzard and ended up being buried alive in an inescapable cocoon of ice so tightly packed around him that he could barely move. After 30 hours trapped in a frosty tomb the size of a large suitcase this behemoth Dane escaped certain death by molding his own shit into a fucking knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice, then crawled another three hours back to base camp like something out of The Revenant meets Everest meets goddamn Shawshank Redemption."

Is there a video of the last round?

He didn't just know the answers,he lived them,and heard the stories handed down mouth to mouth.

Evil whale killer.

Gotta love that "Clean & Clear" pseudoscience.

Have you ever been whaling? Well, of course I have! How times have changed.

6:42 Stunning!

Peter ‘zero fucks given’ Freuchen

He did a remarkable job in Home Alone. I can see why Kevin was so terrified of him

Glad they used questions that the person has experience in

I recommend Peter Freuchens book, Book of the seven seas, very good

Woah did Norm Macdonald snag his hitler joke from this??

One tough dude .

Hoje os GRANDES homens fazem dancinha no tik tok 😂😂😂😂😂

Just finished reading Wanderlust, his biography. Seeing him in the flesh is so surreal. What an eclectic mountain of a man! Also, since this clip doesn't cover the whole thing, let it be known he wins the $64,000.

This man spoke at least three languages fluently. The native language, I assume Danish, and here, English!

Damn im just seeing this in 2/20/23 I've heard about him a while ago tho.

Some people may not realize it but Peter here is probably the biggest badass in existence. The dude was a author of 32 books, a prolific arctic explorer, hunter, and served in WW2. A 6'8 giant of a man who one cut off his own toes after they got frostbitten, dug his way out of an avalanche using a knife he made from his own frozen feces, and lost a whole leg to frostbite again, yet despite that he still joined the danish Resistance and would tell Nazis right to their face he was a Jew to show how they didn't scare him. Was sentenced to death by them but escaped,mind you with only one freaking leg, won the jackpot here on 64000 question, and during his arctic trips often wore a giant coat made from a polar bear he personally killed. He was a true warrior and a genius, if he was born in the time of vikings he'd probably be considered a child of the gods themselves

I think they asked him questions he was likely to know, tbh! Pretty hard questions compared to these days!

And he has zero compassion for the great whales of the ocean. What an ass.

He died only a year after this! Better to die in your 70's it seems--would prefer the last videos of me to look like this than to be a bedridden corpse for months or years :/

Legends NEVER die, they live FOREVER.

Wow those questions seemed very difficult and he's answering them like they are part of his trade.

Why was the host cutting him off... was this shot live?

I see a lot of people commenting on how difficulties questions were, I'm not going to guess about any thing that happened in this video however I'm pretty sure the 64,000 question was involved in the game show scandals where it was discovered they were feeding the contestants the answers

Con Spiracy caused me to search for this video. : )

Easy questions

Rasmmusen and Freuchen. I’d say there is maybe one or two people in that whole theater that have any inkling as to who this man really was. When a man, or woman, lives a life such as this man had, and he most certainly was a man, and when the adventures are over, society is but a clueless child compared to these two mens experiences. Freuchen was a hard man. But he loved once. And deeply. Her name was Navarana. Smart,beautiful, and she was irreplaceable. This clip is of utmost importance. Not only for his knowledge of a bygone adventurist, but for his outward shine. One of the last humans to brave this brutal weatherly Earth in the name of discovery.

fascinating to see him speak

Gigachad

This dude is a bad a**. He used his own frozen poop as a chisel to escape a cave that had frozen over.

Explorer, whale hunter, doctor, author, survivor, frontiersman, and absolute fucking badass.

Do Go On brought me here!

Imagine PETA watching this

The bank guard on the left was my grandfather. His partner was on the right, with Ben Fife, the President of the bank they protected at their daytime job, which was also contracted to hold and “protect” the winnings for this show. I think it was Manufactures Hanover Trust, or maybe that was a take-over name years later, I don’t know or remember. My dad always used to say that Hal March was a great guy in person (MC). Gramps and his (Irish) partner also used to moonlight as bouncers at black jazz clubs up in Manhattan. Its a funny story how that all came about. Gramps loved jazz, and used to go to some of the clubs. Not many whites frequented those clubs. Owners noticed and they talked. Found out he was a guard… he was big and burley… they said, “So… you like our music? How’d you like to work for us??” They both hired out. Rest is history. Then he got 3 different cameos in movies shot on location of the same bank he worked for in Manhattan; he ended up in a full page spread in TV Guide where they sat him down in the midst of a large group of girls in bathing suits with the title “Who is this bank guard?” Short article on his stint with $64,000. And if that weren’t enough, he also got a huge double page spread photo of him in Time Magazine for an article about some abandoned gem left in a safe deposit box… they found out it was worth millions or something. Yeah. Gramps was a bit of celebrity in the Big Apple. 😆 My dad used to talk about this contestant, as well as Virgil Earp, another contestant in another CZcams video. Dad met them both. Crazy stuff.

Truely a gem in danish history. Im here because of the danish podcast Vanvittig Verdenshistorie btw. If you speak danish and you're interrested in history, check it out

This dude is really smart

Your description is wrong. There were only two 64k winners on the Question: Richard McCutchen and Dr. Joyce Brothers.

God Peter Freuchen is by far my favorite historical figure. He was so eloquent and he had such a WILD life.

The original Rambo and Crocodile Dundee all in one.

Can I still get clean and clear?

O.K. But where are the next questions that won him the well-known 64,000$ ?? Or are there further continuation but not on YT? I wonder no one asks this question in the comments

Peter Freuchen is legend. I have several of his books.

Simple History, anyone?

Jesus, these questions were a lot tougher in the past weren't they? Also, asking Peter Freuchen questions on exploration is hilarious.

Oh yeah! The Guy that shat out a knife!

Vandvittig verdenshistorie!!!!!!

Ahh that lovely danish accent - A proud son of Denmark!

Vanvittig Verdenshistorie ftw.