She gave him the organs and the fresh meat that contained the most vitamin C, while eating less herself.

Her own body was showing signs of early scurvy — the fatigue, the aching that she noted in her diary.

She was simultaneously hunting to keep him alive and declining herself.

On June 23, 1923, Lorne Knight died.

Ada typed a record of his death on the expedition’s typewriter.

She could not move his body — she lacked the physical strength, and the weight of what the task meant emotionally was also immense.

She did what practical necessity required: she constructed a barricade of wooden crates around the body to protect it from animals, and she moved herself and Victoria the cat to the expedition’s storage tent.