After recognizing the problems on both sides of the border, represen­ tatives from the Inuvialuit and the Inupiat began to meet to decide how to manage and conserve the southern Beaufort population as a single unit. After just two years, the Inuvialuit Game Council of Canada and Alaska’s North Slope Borough met in Inuvik in 1988 to finalize a gentlemen’s agreement to manage the population jointly. Unfortunately, the deal, the first of its kind, did not get off to a great start. Too young to be on their own, they were placed in a zoo.

Bologna and Butterfly are unofficial names that we gave these glaciers when we were camped at the site. THE LOST WORLD 41 what I was getting myself into. As much as my mind and body warned me against doing this with three men who were six, twelve and twenty-five years younger than me, my heart begged to go. I couldn’t resist. Fort Simpson is a 1,056-mile (1,700 km) drive from Edmonton, Alberta, and not an easy place to get to in late April. The last few hundred miles take you along a narrow gravel road that is at best treacherous and oc­ casionally closed to traffic when rains wash parts of it out.

That would mean longer days, but it would spare us the torture of lugging all the food, tents, sleeping bags and heavy drilling gear on our backs and behind us on sleds. More important, it would remove the challenge of trying to find a way down into the Cirque side of the icefield without imperiling our lives. Not that any of that mattered much to Demuth. Being part of a second generation of glaciologists working in the Arctic, he had been mentored by a pioneering group that included Fritz Koerner, Gerald Holdsworth and Garry Clarke.