Helen Thayer was the first woman to solo any of the world's Poles when she walked alone with her Inuit dog Charlie to the magnetic North Pole in 1988. She traveled unresupplied without dog teams or snowmobiles. She was also the first to circumnavigate the magnetic North Pole area.

Helen and Bill Thayer trekked through blazing temperatures, sand storms and scorpions to become the first woman and man team to complete the 1,600 mile crossing of the Mongolian Gobi Desert on foot. The Thayer's journal and Helen's photography reveal the day-by-day challenge of coping with the environment the nomads take for granted.

Helen and Bill 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 Thayers ambition to live a year close to a den of wild wolves in order to study their life style and behavior.