 Seeking revenge, Victor pursues the Creature to the North Pole, but collapses from exhaustion and hypothermia before he can find his quarry.At the end of Victor's narrative, Captain Walton resumes the telling of the story, closing the frame around Victor's recounting.A few days after the Creature vanished, the ship becomes trapped in pack ice, and multiple crewmen die in the cold before the rest of Walton's crew insists on returning south once it is freed.