About
He led the first team, along with Matthew Henson, to reach the North Pole.
Before Fame
He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity while attending Bowdoin College.
Trivia
His claims of having been the first to reach the North Pole were doubted by skeptics.
Family Life
He had a daughter, Marie Ahnighito Peary, in 1893 with an Inuit woman.
Associated With
He was a critically acclaimed explorer like Christopher Columbus.
