By Brittany Hobson Gry Skjottelvik arrived in Canada last month with a mission. The mother traded in the comfort of her home in a small village in Norway for the expansive, sprawling and sometimes treacherous terrain of northern Canada to trace the final steps of her son, Steffen Skjottelvik. It’s the second time in a year that Skjottelvik has made the trek following the death of her son whose body was recovered from the shores of a river in northern Manitoba while he was on a cross-continental journey of the Canadian wilderness with his two dogs, Togo and Bay. This time around, the trip was about moving forward with the First Nation communities that embraced her son. “It was lovely to meet the people there, to have the opportunity to… <\/p>\n
By Brittany Hobson Gry Skjottelvik arrived in Canada last month with a mission. The mother traded in the comfort of her home in a small village in Norway for the expansive, sprawling and sometimes treacherous terrain of northern Canada to trace the final steps of her son, Steffen Skjottelvik. It’s the second time in a year that Skjottelvik has made the trek following the death of her son whose body was recovered from the shores of a river in northern Manitoba while he was on a cross-continental journey of the Canadian wilderness with his two dogs, Togo and Bay. This time around, the trip was about moving forward with the First Nation communities that embraced her son. “It was lovely to meet the people there, to have the opportunity to... <\/p>\n