Salmon, in the alpine terrain where he was found, meant that he had either carried dried or smoked salmon with him as travel food — a practice documented in the ethnographic record of both coastal and interior peoples — or that he had eaten it shortly before ascending to the alpine terrain from lower elevation.

The combined picture from the isotopes and the stomach contents is of a man with significant coastal connections who was, at the time of his death, traveling through or crossing the alpine terrain of the Tatshenshini-Alsek region.

Whether he was traveling from the coast to the interior, from the interior to the coast, or through the mountains as part of a longer route that connected both sides, cannot be established with certainty from the available evidence.

The Journey That Ended In Ice