The year is 1930, the vast uncharted wilderness their destination, and the newlyweds Bill and Ruth Albee are off on the adventure of their lives.

Having grown weary with the bleak day-to-day existence that is expected of young students, Bill and Ruth come up with the plan to head to Alaska—exploring the large blank space on the map that is western British Columbia along the way. And in so doing study first-hand that which the colleges could only teach from their dusty old books.

So without further ado they started off. Leaving from Vancouver on foot up through western B.C.—following a route very few white men and no white women had been on—into the Yukon and then on to Alaska down the mighty Yukon river. A journey of many thousands of miles.

Enroute are the perils of bureaucratic red tape, starvation, wolves, the disappearing Rudy, dangerous rivers, a worthless map, crazy frontiersmen, a Russian woman and her stuffed dog, friendly and unfriendly natives, and an unplanned pregnancy.

And the destination worth every minute of it! For Bill and Ruth discovered something far greater than the adventure. Greater than the experience of it all. Something great, wild, wonderful and truly unexpected. .