Click a menu item at the top of the page to follow the adventure. Bill and Helen Thayer lived for a year with wild wolves in the far reaches of the Canadian Yukon above the Arctic Circle. While there have been many excellent studies of captive wolves and studies of wolves in natural settings it was the Thayer's ambition to live a year close to a den of wild wolves to study their life style and behavior. They were accompanied by Charlie, their part wolf-dog of magnetic North Pole fame. He was the Inuit polar bear dog who walked at Helen’s side as she skied solo without the aid of a dog team or snowmobile to the magnetic North Pole in 1988 to become the first woman to travel alone to the Pole. Her greatest danger was the constant threat of polar bears. But with Charlie at her side, they faced and survived seven confrontations, thanks to Helen’s quick wit and Charlie’s fearless and keen senses. Charlie’s grandfather was an arctic wolf. It was this wolf heritage that the Thayers hoped would provide the key to their year-long study of wild wolves. Aware of the impossibility of humans being accepted by wild wolves, let alone living alongside their den, they hoped that Charlie’s wolf heritage would gain him acceptance and ultimately acceptance of his human companions. This method had not been tried before, and although it was an experiment, it was worth a try. Later when Bill and Helen returned from their year-long adventure with wolves she wrote a book, Three Among the Wolves. It was a finalist at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. These dispatches tell only a portion of the story. Helen wrote Three Among the Wolves so that the entire story of their amazing year with wolves could be told.