Chris McCandless died in 1992 in the Alaskan wilderness, through the jumbling shadows of differing opinions, a white light emerges that reveals Chris as an idealistic young man who took the news of his father's infidelity as a symbol that all the the world is cruel and dark. His actions cannot be easily classified, he was too charismatic to be an outcast, too smart to be stupid, and too in love with nature to be a sociopath. Chris
McCandless was confused, idealistic young man who’s unbelievable drive lead him to unbelievable feat, which resulted in his unfortunate demise.
McCandless was born into an affluent family in washington DC. He lived a relatively normal life with what he thought to be his only sister, and both of his parents.
Chris was hesitant about college
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After graduating he defied expectations and disappeared. He donated all of his life savings and left his apartment to live in his care and travel to alaska, the site of what he thought would be his greatest transformation, he took this from transcendentalist thinkers and authors such as Henry David Thoreau who glorified nature and individualism. These ideas stuck with him throughout his travels as he accepted all kinds of harsh labor with a passion, he seemed to rejoice in another challenge that he could go up against. This Drive which lead him to be a “doer” lead to him taking one of the most difficult challenges on the planet surviving in the harsh and unforgiving land of Alaska.
What eventually caused Chris’s death was the ingestion of a poisonous wild potato seed that contained a protein based poison that lead to paralysis before Chris’s death, further hindering him from collecting food. Initial observers blamed Chris’s death on naivete and on being too headstrong but in actuality the plant was not labeled as dangerous in many guides and books from which McCandless gained most of