In the meantime, Thule served as the home base for several expeditions between 1912 and 1933.

The first Thule expedition in 1912 involved crossing a thousand kilometres across Greenland to prove to contemporary cartographers that the North Pole and Greenland weren’t just separated by a river. Both Freshen and Rasmussen almost died on the trip, but became bearded legends.

Sadly to say though, his wife contracted Spanish Flu in 1921 and passed away, so he moved back to Denmark.