Anybody have a spare $20,000 to give me so I can go to beechey island and sit on the rocks and stare at the Franklin graves for 12 hours while considering the unstoppable force that is the passage of time
Erik the Red, the banished warrior turned Viking pioneer, went from exile to exploration, and laid the foundation for Norse expansion into North America.
The untold story of Erik the Red is a saga of a Viking with a turbulent past turned fearless explorer and a leader who defied exile, and discovered Greenland, shaping the course of European expansion.
From Iceland to Greenland, his footsteps tell of resilience, redemption, and adventure.
i do thing it's mighty rich of that recent documentary on joe henderson to call him the "last arctic explorer" in relation to how he works his dogs when there are plenty of indigenous arctic mushers working their dogs in the traditional way without peddling inaccurate and often harmful breed mythology but that's just me.
Harald Moltke (Dec. 14, 1871 - 1960) was a Danish painter and writer. He had trained at the Royal Academy in the early 1890s and shortly after began participating in various scientific expeditions to the Arctic regions. He painted a number of canvases in Greenland, including this one which exists in two versions - one from 1903, and this much later re-imagining of the same scene:
Polareskimoer på vandring, 1945 - oil on canvas (Nuuk Kunstmuseum)