 Eventually, Ada returned to the Arctic where she lived until the age of 85.She was quiet and hated the media circus that developed around her and the attempts by her rescuer Noice and Stefansson to exploit her story.Except for the salary that she made on the trip and a few hundred dollars for furs that she trapped while on Wrangel, Ada did not benefit from the subsequent publication of several very popular books and articles concerning this disastrous voyage.