
Balto eventually finds the team, but Steele does not want his help and attacks him until he loses his balance and falls off a cliff. Balto instructs Boris and the polar bears to take her back home while he continues on alone Jenna gives him her bandanna and Boris gives him some advice. However, Jenna got injured and cannot continue on.

The bear pursues Balto out onto a frozen lake, where it falls through the ice and drowns, while Muk and Luk dive in to save Balto from a similar fate. On the way, they are attacked by a huge grizzly bear, but Jenna, who followed their mark tracks, intervenes. Balto sets out in search of the sled team, along with Boris, Muk and Luk. When the word reaches Nome that the sled team is missing, the town prepares for the worst. The team departs that night with Steele in the lead and later picks up the medicine successfully, but on the way back, conditions deteriorate and the disoriented team ends up stranded at the base of a steep mountainside slope with the musher knocked unconscious. Balto enter and wins, but Steele exposes his wolf-dog heritage, resulting in him being disqualified.

A dog race is held to determine the best-fit dogs for a sled dog team to get the medicine. However, severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by sea or air, and the closest rail line from Juneau ends at Nenana, 600 miles east of Nome. The local wireless operator relays news of the outbreak, and word travels to the territory capital at Juneau, where the governor orders antitoxin to be sent to Nome. That night, all the children, including Rosy, fall ill with diphtheria and the doctor is out of antitoxin. He is later challenged by the town's favorite sled dog, Steele, a fierce and arrogant Alaskan Malamute. His only friend in town is a red husky named Jenna whom Balto has a crush on and her owner, Rosy. Being half-breed, Balto is ridiculed by dogs and humans alike.

As they seat themselves for a rest, the grandmother tells a story about Nome, Alaska back in 1925, which shifts the film from live-action to animation.īalto, a wolfdog hybrid, lives on the outskirts of Nome with his adoptive father, a snow goose named Boris, and two polar bears, Muk and Luk. In New York City, an elderly woman and her granddaughter are walking through Central Park, looking for a memorial statue.
