Hickey's group, despite resorting to cannibalism, is stopped short of its goal by a blizzard, and most of the men either starve or freeze to death, while the remainder are murdered by Hickey, who has begun to suffer delusions of godhood. Goodsir commits suicide by poisoning himself, ensuring that any of Hickey's crew who eats his body will die. Hickey is left to freeze to death alone by the monster, seemingly because his soul is so foul that the monster considers him inedible.