This man has seen some things. This is Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen, as he looked to his rescuers after two and a half years of holing up in a makeshift cabin with engineer Iver Iversen. They had gone on an expedition to northern Greenland in 1909 to recover documents from an earlier expedition. When their ship Alabama was trapped in ice, the two men set out with a sled to continue their journey. When they returned to Shannon Island, they found the rest of the expedition had left with a whaling ship on the assumption that the two were dead. Mikkelsen and Iversen built a hut from wood salvaged from the ship, and survived the next two winters on seal and polar bear meat. Finally, a Norwegian whaling ship found them in 1912. Read about the Alabama expedition and the ordeal of being stranded on Shannon Island at Vintage Everyday.