Kenton Carnegie was a 22 year old honors geological engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He was doing a co op at a mining camp near Wollaston Lake in northern Saskatchewan when he decided to take a walk on November 8, 2005.Around 3:30 p.m., Kenton told workers at the camp that he would return by 5. An avid photographer, he wanted to capture some nature shots along the lake. But when 6:15 arrived and there was still no sign of him, several camp members went looking.The search party followed Kenton’s tracks down a trail toward the lake before noticing that they doubled back toward camp. Behind them was another set of tracks.They belonged to wolves.Not far from the tracks, camp co owner Mark Eikel used a flashlight and spotted what appeared to be a body. He ordered everyone back to camp, and the RCMP was notified. Eikel and other camp workers later returned with local coroner Rosalie Tsannie Burseth.They confirmed the worst. It was Kenton.His ribs and flesh were exposed, showing that he had suffered a brutal attack. But the investigation was about to become even more disturbing.When the search party returned to the location with RCMP officers, Kenton’s body was gone. A trail of blood showed that whatever had attacked him was still nearby. Then the group heard wolves howling in the darkness.An autopsy revealed that Kenton had died from a bite to the neck, although investigators were initially uncertain what animal was responsible. Some believed a bear could have attacked him and dragged his body away.But the evidence pointed elsewhere.Kenton’s footprints became more spread out after he turned back toward camp, suggesting that he had started running. Witness accounts, wolf tracks in the snow and the surrounding evidence eventually led investigators to conclude that at least two wolves had attacked him.Running from wolves can be extremely dangerous. Wolves can reach speeds of up to 40 mph over long distances, and facing a pack makes escape even harder.Kenton’s death was the first reported fatal wild wolf attack in North America in more than a century. That raised another question: why had wolves come so close to the mining camp in the first place?The area had an unlicensed dump on Crown land that was known to attract predators. During winter, when food became scarce, the wolves appeared to have become less afraid of humans.There had also been a wolf sighting in the area only days before Kenton was killed. Whether that warning could have prevented his death remains impossible to know.Three days after the attack, wildlife officers shot two wolves in the area. Inside the stomach of one was hair and material that may or may not have been connected to the predation of a human.A fence was eventually placed around the landfill in an attempt to keep wildlife away from the camp.Kenton had gone out expecting nothing more than a quiet walk and a few photographs. Instead, his tracks revealed that something had followed him through the snow, turning an ordinary afternoon into a rare and deadly encounter with wolves.