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Chris McCandless
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Self-portrait of McCandless next to the Jitney 142 on the Stampede Trail road, found as an undeveloped photographic picture show in his camera after his death
Born

Christopher Johnson McCandless


(1968-02-12)February 12, 1968

El Segundo, California, U.Due south.
Died c. August 1992 (anile 24)

Stampede Trail, Alaska, U.S.
Crusade of death Starvation, peradventure brought on past poisoning[one]
Trunk discovered September half-dozen, 1992
Other names Alexander Supertramp
Pedagogy Wilbert Tucker Woodson Loftier School
Alma mater Emory University

Christopher Johnson McCandless (; February 12, 1968[ii] – c. August 1992), also known by his self-made nickname "Alexander Supertramp",[three] was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle every bit he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length characteristic film.

After graduating from Emory Academy in Georgia in 1990, McCandless traveled across N America and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. In that location, he entered the Alaskan bush with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. On the eastern bank of the Sushana River, McCandless found an abased bus, Fairbanks Double-decker 142, which he used as a makeshift shelter until his decease. In September, his decomposing body, weighing merely 67 pounds (30 kg), was plant inside the bus by a hunter. McCandless's cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation,[4] [5] although the exact circumstances relating to his death remain the field of study of some fence.[half-dozen] [7] [8] [9]

In January 1993, Krakauer published an article about McCandless in that month'due south issue of Outside mag. He had been assigned the story and had written information technology under a tight deadline.[x] Inspired past the details of McCandless's story, Krakauer wrote the biographical book Into the Wild, which was afterwards adjusted into a 2007 moving picture directed by Sean Penn, with Emile Hirsch portraying McCandless. That aforementioned year, McCandless became the subject area of Ron Lamothe's documentary The Phone call of the Wild.

Early life [edit]

Christopher Johnson McCandless was born in El Segundo, California. He was the eldest kid of Wilhelmina "Billie" McCandless (née Johnson) and Walter "Walt" McCandless, and had a younger sister named Carine. McCandless also had half dozen half-siblings from Walt'southward first marriage, who lived with their mother in California and later Denver, Colorado. In 1976, the family relocated to Annandale, Virginia, where McCandless's father was hired as an antenna specialist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). McCandless'south mother worked equally a secretary for Hughes Aircraft. The couple went on to establish a successful consultancy business out of their home, specializing in Walt's area of expertise.[xi]

Carine McCandless declared in her memoir The Wild Truth that her parents inflicted verbal and physical abuse upon each other and their children, often fueled by her father's alcoholism. She cited their calumniating childhood, as well as his reading of Jack London's The Call of the Wild, every bit the motivating factors in her brother's desire to "disappear" into the wilderness.[12] In a statement released to the media shortly before the memoir was released, Walt and Billie McCandless denied their daughter's accusations, stating that her book is "fictionalized writing [that] has absolutely nothing to do with our dearest son, Chris, his journeying or his character. This whole unfortunate event in Chris's life 22 years ago is nigh Chris and his dreams."[11]

In 1986, McCandless graduated from Due west.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia.[13] He excelled academically, although a number of teachers and boyfriend students observed that he "marched to the beat of a dissimilar drummer." McCandless besides served as captain of the cross-country team, where he would urge teammates to treat running as a spiritual exercise in which they were "running confronting the forces of darkness ... all the evil in the globe, all the hatred."[xiv]

McCandless travelled to southern California and reconnected with distant relatives and friends in the summer of 1986. While there McCandless learned that his father had lived for a time in a bigamous union with his second wife; he had besides fathered a child with his first wife after the nativity of his children past his second wife. Jon Krakauer speculated that this discovery may accept had a profound touch on on McCandless.[xv]

McCandless graduated from Emory University in May 1990 with a available'due south degree in the double majors of history and anthropology.[14] Equally an academic high achiever, McCandless was awarded an A in Apartheid and South African Society and History of Anthropological Thought and an A- in Contemporary African Politics and the Food Crisis in Africa. [16]After graduating, he donated his college savings of $24,000 (approximately $50,000 in 2021) to Oxfam and adopted a vagabond lifestyle, working when necessary as a restaurant food preparer and farm-paw.[17] An gorging outdoorsman, McCandless completed several lengthy wilderness hiking trips and paddled a canoe downward a portion of the Colorado River before hitchhiking to Alaska in April 1992.[eighteen]

Personal life [edit]

McCandless held a detail involvement in classic literature. According to Krakauer, some of his favorite writers were Jack London, Marking Twain, and H. G. Wells.[19] He was also heavily influenced by 19th-century American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau and was engrossed by his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. McCandless highlighted a section on chastity in Thoreau's Walden, which has raised questions regarding his sexuality. There is no indication of McCandless having any romantic partners throughout his life and he is believed to have remained celibate. While staying in Niland Slabs, a seventeen-year-erstwhile named Tracy pursued McCandless romantically; withal, McCandless rejected her advances.[20] Some LGBTQ+ advocates debate that McCandless was asexual due to his celibacy. Wayne Westerburg recalls McCandless stating that he hoped to go married and have a family in his future. [21]

Travels [edit]

McCandless left Virginia in the summertime of 1990, driving a Datsun west in an apparent cantankerous land trip to California. His motorcar was non in skilful condition and suffered numerous breakdowns equally he made his way out of the eastern Us. He also carried no car insurance on the vehicle and was driving with expired license plates. Past the stop of the summertime, McCandless had reached the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, where a flash flood disabled his car beyond repair. Fearful of fines or possibly even arrest due to lack of a valid license, registration and insurance, McCandless removed the car's license plates, took what he could carry, and kept moving on foot. His automobile was afterwards found, repaired, and put into service equally an undercover vehicle for the local police section.[22]

Traveling northwest, McCandless and so hitchhiked into the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he broke into a closed cabin to steal food, supplies, and coin. Throughout the winter of 1990, and in 1991, McCandless appears to have lived in hermit camps with other vagrants in the Sierra Nevada region. He was suspected of burglarizing other cabins when food and money ran low, merely only one case was always positively confirmed by government after his death.[23]

Mexico and abort [edit]

In early 1991, McCandless left the Sierra Nevada and hitchhiked in a circular class s through California, into Arizona, so north to Due south Dakota. Completely out of cash with no ways to back up himself, he obtained a job as a grain elevator operator in Carthage, South Dakota. He worked at this chore for the residual of 1991, until one twenty-four hours suddenly quitting and leaving his supervisor a postcard which read:

"Tramping is also easy with all this money. My days were more heady when I was penniless and had to provender around for my next repast ... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come."

McCandless and so headed to Colorado, where he used money from his job to purchase kayak supplies too as a handgun. He then navigated the Colorado River, without a allow, and was occasionally pursued by wildlife and park rangers who had heard of his exploits from other river travelers, several of whom had been concerned that McCandless had been seen white h2o rafting in dangerous areas of the river with no safety equipment. In all, reports of McCandless were received at Lake Havasu, Bill Williams River, the Colorado River Reservoir, Cibola Wildlife Refuge, Imperial Wild fauna Refuge and Yuma Ground. The authorities attempted, but never succeeded, in locating McCandless, who was wanted due to his lack of proper river training equally well as operating on the river without a valid boating license.[24]

McCandless somewhen followed the Colorado River all the mode to United mexican states, where he crossed the international border through a spillway at the Morelos Dam. Afterward encountering waterfalls, through which he could no longer navigate in a canoe, McCandless abandoned his river journey and spent a few days alone at the hamlet of El Golfo de Santa Clara ( 31°41′13″N 114°29′49″Due west  /  31.687°N 114.497°Due west  / 31.687; -114.497 ), in the province of Sonora. Finding Mexico intimidating, with no way to support himself, he attempted to re-enter the U.Southward. and was arrested for carrying a firearm at a border checkpoint. McCandless was briefly held in custody merely released without charges after his gun was confiscated. Following this experience in United mexican states, McCandless began hitchhiking north, eventually winding up back in Southward Dakota.[25]

Alaska [edit]

In April 1992, McCandless hitchhiked from S Dakota to Fairbanks, Alaska. After his death, witnesses stated they had seen McCandless in Alaska kickoff at Dot Lake, with several other sightings in Fairbanks. McCandless was stated to exist traveling with a "big haversack" and would give a faux name if asked his identity. He was described every bit very suspicious of people around him, unkempt, and smelling due to lack of hygiene. One witness described McCandless as "generally strange, weird, with a weird energy".[26]

McCandless was then final seen alive at the head of the Stampede Trail on April 28 by a local electrician named Jim Gallien. Gallien, who had given McCandless a ride from Fairbanks to the outset of the rugged rails just outside the small town of Healy, later said he had been seriously concerned virtually the safety of McCandless (who introduced himself equally "Alex") afterwards noticing his light pack, minimal equipment, meager rations, and obvious lack of experience. Gallien said he had deep doubts about "Alex's" ability to survive the harsh and unforgiving Alaskan bush.

Gallien tried repeatedly to persuade McCandless to filibuster the trip, at ane indicate offering to detour to Anchorage and buy him suitable equipment and supplies. However, McCandless ignored Gallien'south persistent warnings and refused his offers of aid (though he did accept a pair of Xtratufs, two sandwiches, and a packet of corn chips from Gallien). Gallien dropped McCandless off assertive he would head dorsum towards the highway within a few days as hunger set in.[27]

Later hiking along the snow-covered Stampede Trail, McCandless came upon an abased bus (about 28 miles (45 km) due west of Healy at 63°52′5.96″N 149°46′8.39″W  /  63.8683222°N 149.7689972°W  / 63.8683222; -149.7689972 ) aslope an overgrown section of the trail well-nigh Denali National Park. McCandless, according to Krakauer, attempted to continue "heading westward until [he] hitting the Bering Bounding main." Yet, he was deterred by the thick Alaskan bush and returned to the coach, where he prepare up camp and lived off the country. He had iv.five kilograms (ix.9 lb) of rice; a Remington semi-automatic rifle with 400 rounds of .22LR hollowpoint armament; a number of books, including ane on local plant life; some personal effects and a few items of camping ground equipment. Self-portrait photographs and journal entries betoken he foraged for edible plants and hunted game including porcupines, squirrels, and birds such equally ptarmigans and Canada geese. On June nine, 1992, McCandless illegally stalked and shot a moose. However, the meat spoiled within days after he failed in his efforts to preserve information technology.

It had been speculated that McCandless was responsible for vandalizing several cabins in the area that were stocked with food, survival equipment, and emergency supplies. In response, Denali National Park Chief Ranger Ken Kehrer has categorically stated that McCandless was not considered a feasible suspect by the National Park Service.[28]

McCandless'due south periodical documents 113 days in the area. In July, after living in the jitney for a little over two months, he decided to head back to civilization, only the trail was blocked past the impassable Teklanika River swollen with late-summer runoff from the Cantwell Glacier; the watercourse past that stage was considerably higher and swifter than when he had crossed in Apr. McCandless did not have a detailed topographical map of the region and was unaware of the existence of an abandoned, paw-operated cable automobile that crossed the river one⁄2 mile (800 m) downstream from where he had previously crossed.[14] At this point, McCandless headed back to the bus and re-established his camp. He posted an S.O.S. annotation on the bus stating:

Attention Possible Visitors. S.O.Southward. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the proper name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close past and shall return this night. Give thanks yous, Chris McCandless. Baronial ?[29]

Death [edit]

McCandless's concluding written journal entry, noted every bit "Solar day 107", simply read, "Beautiful Bluish BERRIES."[30] Days 108 through 112 contained no words and were marked just with slashes, and on Day 113 there was no entry.[31] The exact date and time of his death are unknown. Near the fourth dimension of his death, McCandless took a picture of himself waving while holding a written note, which read:

I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND Give thanks THE LORD. Goodbye AND MAY GOD Bless ALL![32]

On September half-dozen, 1992, a group of hunters who were looking for shelter for the night came upon the converted bus where McCandless had been staying. Upon inbound, they smelled what they thought was rotting food and discovered "a lump" in a sleeping bag in the dorsum of the bus. The hunters radioed police, who arrived the following mean solar day. They establish McCandless's decomposing remains in the sleeping bag. It is theorized that he died from starvation approximately ii weeks before his body was found.[31]

Theories of malnutrition [edit]

Rabbit starvation [edit]

In his book Into the Wild (1996), Krakauer suggests 2 factors may have contributed to McCandless's expiry. First, he offered that McCandless was running the gamble of "rabbit starvation", from over-relying on lean meat for diet.[33]

Swainsonine in Hedysarum alpinum seeds [edit]

Krakauer also speculated[34] that McCandless might have been poisoned by a toxic alkaloid called swainsonine, by ingesting seeds (from Hedysarum alpinum or Hedysarum mackenzii) containing the toxin, or peradventure by a mold that grows on them (Rhizoctonia leguminicola) when he put them damp into a plastic bag. Swainsonine inhibits metabolism of glycoproteins, which causes starvation despite aplenty caloric intake.[vii]

However, in an commodity in the September 2007 upshot of Men'due south Journal, Matthew Power states that all-encompassing laboratory testing showed at that place were no toxins or alkaloids present in the H. alpinum seeds McCandless had been eating. Dr. Thomas Clausen, the chair of the chemistry and biochemistry section at Academy of Alaska Fairbanks, said, "I tore that institute autonomously. There were no toxins. No alkaloids. I'd eat it myself."[35] Analysis of the wild sweet peas, given as the cause of McCandless's death in Into the Wild, plant no toxic compounds, and at that place is not a single account in modern medical literature of anyone being poisoned past this species of plant.[4] Every bit Power put information technology: "He didn't find a style out of the bush, couldn't catch enough food to survive, and just starved to decease".[35]

Lathyrism due to ODAP in Hedysarum alpinum seeds [edit]

In 2013, a new hypothesis was proposed. Ronald Hamilton, a retired bookbinder at the Indiana Academy of Pennsylvania,[7] suggested a link between the symptoms described past McCandless and the poisoning of Jewish prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp in Vapniarca. He put frontward the proposal that McCandless starved to expiry because he was suffering from paralysis in his legs induced past lathyrism, which prevented him from gathering food or hiking.[36] Lathyrism may be caused by ODAP poisoning from seeds of Hedysarum alpinum (commonly called wild potato). The ODAP, a toxic amino acid, had non been detected by the previous studies of the seeds because they had suspected and tested for a toxic alkaloid, rather than an amino acid, and nobody had previously suspected that Hedysarum alpinum seeds contained this toxin. The protein would be relatively harmless to someone who was well-fed and on a normal diet, only toxic to someone who was malnourished, physically stressed, and on an irregular and insufficient diet, equally McCandless was.[37] As Krakauer points out, McCandless's field guide did not warn of any dangers of eating the seeds, which were not yet known to be toxic. Krakauer suspects this is the pregnant of McCandless's journal entry of July 30, which states, "EXTREMELY WEAK. Fault OF POT[ATO] SEED. MUCH TROUBLE Simply TO Stand. STARVING. Dandy JEOPARDY."[38]

In September 2013, Krakauer published an article in The New Yorker post-obit up on Hamilton'south claims.[7] A sample of fresh Hedysarum alpinum seeds was sent to a laboratory for HPLC analysis. Results showed that the seeds contained 0.394% beta-ODAP past weight, a concentration well within the levels known to crusade lathyrism in humans, although the interpretation of the results were disputed past other chemists.[6] The article notes that while occasional ingestion of foodstuffs containing ODAP is non hazardous for salubrious individuals eating a balanced diet, "individuals suffering from malnutrition, stress, and acute hunger are peculiarly sensitive to ODAP, and are thus highly susceptible to the incapacitating effects of lathyrism after ingesting the neurotoxin".[7]

L-canavanine in Hedysarum alpinum seeds [edit]

In March 2015, Krakauer co-authored a scientific assay of the Hedysarum alpinum seeds McCandless ate. Instead of ODAP, the report constitute relatively loftier levels of L-canavanine (an antimetabolite toxic to mammals) in the H. alpinum seeds and concluded "it is highly likely that the consumption of H. alpinum seeds contributed to the expiry of Chris McCandless."[9]

Legacy [edit]

The converted greenish and white jitney where McCandless lived and died became a well-known destination for hikers. Known as "The Magic Bus", the 1946 International Harvester was abased by route workers in 1961 on the Stampede Trail. A plaque in McCandless's retentivity was affixed to the interior by his father, Walt McCandless.[39] McCandless's life became the subject of a number of manufactures, books, films, and documentaries, which helped elevate his life to the status of modernistic myth.[forty] He became a romantic figure to some inspired by what they come across every bit his free-spirited idealism, but to others, he is a controversial, misguided effigy.[35] [41] [42]

"The Magic Motorcoach" became a pilgrimage destination for trekkers who would army camp at the vehicle. Some of these experienced their own difficulties, or even died attempting to cross the Teklanika River.[xl] [41] [43]

On June 18, 2020, various regime agencies coordinated with an Alaska Regular army National Guard training mission to finally remove the motorbus, deemed a public condom issue after at least fifteen people had to be rescued, and at least 2 people died while attempting to cross the Teklanika River to attain the double-decker.[44] It was flown via CH-47 Chinook helicopter to Healy, then via flatbed truck to an undisclosed location.[45] [46] [47] [44]

On September 24, 2020, the Museum of the Due north at the University of Alaska Fairbanks announced it became the permanent home of McCandless'southward 'Magic Omnibus 142' where it volition be restored and an outdoor exhibit will exist created.[48]

Assessments [edit]

McCandless has been a polarizing figure since his story came to widespread public attention with the publication of Krakauer'southward January 1993 Outside article.[35] [41] While the author and many others accept a sympathetic view of the young traveler,[49] others, particularly Alaskans, have expressed negative views about McCandless and those who romanticize his fate.[50]

Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote:

When yous consider McCandless from my perspective, yous quickly come across that what he did wasn't fifty-fifty particularly daring, simply stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he [had] had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament [...] Substantially, Chris McCandless committed suicide.[50]

Ken Ilgunas, also an Alaskan Park Ranger and the writer of The McCandless Mecca,[51] wrote in response:

Earlier I become whatever further, I should say that Pete is a really good guy [...] But with that said, I remember Pete is very, very wrong. [...] Considering I am in the unique position as both an Alaskan park ranger and a person who is, in many ways, similar Chris McCandless, I feel I can speak with some authority on the discipline. [...] McCandless, of course, did not commit suicide. He starved to death, accidentally poisoned himself, or a combination of the two.[52]

Sherry Simpson, writing in the Anchorage Press, described her trip to the bus with a friend, and their reaction upon reading the comments that tourists had left lauding McCandless equally an insightful, Thoreau-like figure:

Amid my friends and acquaintances, the story of Christopher McCandless makes great after-dinner conversation. Much of the time I agree with the "he had a death wish" camp because I don't know how else to reconcile what we know of his ordeal. Now and then I venture into the "what a dumbshit" territory, tempered past brief alliances with the "he was just another romantic boy on an all-American quest" partisans. Mostly I'1000 puzzled by the way he's emerged equally a hero.[53]

Krakauer defends McCandless, claiming that what critics bespeak to as airs was merely McCandless's desire for "being the first to explore a blank spot on the map." He continues: "In 1992, still, in that location were no more than bare spots on the map—not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came upwards with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. In his own mind, if nowhere else, the terra would thereby remain incognita."[54]

In popular civilisation [edit]

Krakauer's approximately 9,000-word article "Death of an Innocent" (January 1993) was published in Outside.[55] Chip Chocolate-brown's full-length article on McCandless, "I Now Walk Into the Wild" (February 8, 1993), was published in The New Yorker.[5] Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book Into the Wild (1996) expands upon his 1993 Outside article and retraces McCandless'southward travels leading up to the hiker's eventual expiry.

McCandless'southward story was adapted by screenwriter Flake Johannessen into a 1998 episode of Chris Carter's boob tube series Millennium, titled "Luminary."[56]

An eponymous 2007 film adaptation of Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch portraying McCandless, received a number of awards, including Best Picture from the American Motion-picture show Institute.[57] Ron Lamothe's documentary The Call of the Wild (2007) also covers McCandless's life story.[58]

The 2011 book Back to the Wild compiles photographs, postcards and periodical entries by McCandless. A PBS documentary uncovering some additional information, with interviews, titled Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story, first aired on the PBS network in November 2014.[59]

Run across also [edit]

  • Lillian Alling
  • Christopher Thomas Knight
  • Tomasz Mackiewicz
  • Carl McCunn
  • Richard Proenneke
  • Death of Vance Rodriguez
  • Everett Ruess
  • Survivalism
  • Timothy Treadwell

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External links [edit]

  • "Christopher McCandless – Finding the Christopher McCandless Bus". freewheelings.com. March 25, 2010.
  • Chris McCandless at Find a Grave
  • ChristopherMcCandless.info Website on Christopher McCandless.
  • Chrisspurpose.org — Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Foundation
  • Dispatches from the Wild — Excerpts of McCandless'due south own manufactures published in the Emory Cycle educatee newspaper.
  • The Wild Truth past Carine McCandless, ISBN 978-0-06-232516-seven, detailing what growing-upwardly in the McCandless household was like.
  • The Phone call of the Wild, a 2007 documentary about McCandless made by Ron Lamothe.
  • Vagabond, a 1985 French motion-picture show that deals with a similar theme

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless

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