 Fossey attended the lecture, spoke momentarily to Leakey, and to her surprise he remembered her and asked her to stay after the lecture.The next day after an hour's interview at Leakey's hotel, he hired her to observe gorillas, taking up where George Schaller had left off.On January 6, 1967, she arrived at the Virunga Mountains in a Land Rover with Alan Root and a small party and hiked into the mountains, where she set up camp.