No one knows how a dream is born - even if it is known for certain how it all began. The life of Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) and before his quarter-century polar epic did not stand still: he was born, studied, received an engineering degree in 1877, worked as a draftsman, was admitted to the Corps of Civil Engineers of the US Navy, in 1884-1885 he conducted filming work in Nicaragua. But one day, after reading about the Greenland ice sheet, Piri seemed to wake up. His life finally found Meaning.