His story inspired me to trek across the alps for 2 weeks alone, which I have returned from only today. I'll be travelling to Scotland in a week to live rough in the mountains for a month. I can't tell you how much Jon has helped me discover a new direction and freedom in my life.
In a way, I'm jealous of this guy. I think there's a part in everybody that wishes they could just take off, leave it all behind. That's why his story is so captivating for so many people. We're all just a little bit jealous..
@martian59 I'm so sorry, but it was not complete stupidity. He may had a little bit in him but he inspired us all to realize that God gave us so much blessings in life, and it's not just materialistic things, but nature. He got a sense of courage to go out of his easy lifestyle and comfort zone to seek out truth. It's not something any of us would do nowadays. We rely on technology, and advanced lifestyle's which actually corrupts our lives. He's definitely someone to look up too.
@martian59 Because McCandless accomplished something that most people never do, and that's live out his dreams. He showed self-determination, persistence, and a true display of human spirit. He died alive.
I LOVE both the BOOK and the MOVIE!!! It'll make u question ur existence as of now... b/c no matter how much money u make, ur gonna leave all this... and won't find true happiness... living in a old rubble debris for the rest of ur LIFE is the poorest human being EVER.. thinking that small land is of URS!!! LIVE THE LIFE FOR OTHERS AND BE IN THE WILD!!!
For those who want to find more about the true story behind Chris McCandless, here's a link to the write-up of the documentary The Call of the Wild by its maker, which states all facts:
tifilms[dot]com/wild/call_debunked.htm
I consider The Call of the Wild to be even better than Into the Wild by the way, it's way more truthful to the story which allows it to have an even more powerful message.
Chris was certainly an inspirational person, his view on life ignites a desire that's inside all of us to experience life to the fullest before we die. It's too bad though that Into The Wild and the book, while still great, don't show some very important facts. For example, he didn't die of poisoning but simply of starvation, and he did have money on him as well as several ID's AND a MAP!
It's all explained in the documentary called The Call of the Wild, made simultaneously with Into the Wild.
What a lot of people don't realize is that krakauer wouldn't give the rights to sean penn unless Walt and Billie McCandless were ok with it. Walt and Billie approved the movie because it showed Chris as a hero. If you read the book you would know that Krakauer does not make Chris look like a hero, he simply tells the story and at times relates it to his life stories. Krakauer wanted the reader to form there own oppinion on chris. Leaving your parents forever unannounced is not very hero like
One of my favorite movies but what people forget, its hard alot of times, if you dont have money its hard to get water and food everyday, sleeping outside etc everybody at one point in their life want to pack their bags and go, but in the end wont do it cause it is a big decision. I know, i will be leaving very soon leaving everything behind myself, without money and on foot but my mind is playing tricks on me everyday because society made brain to think logicly.Check my profile if you like
Why should u live into the wild? I cant find any reason! I'am more happy to spend my life with familly, friends, soccer, babes, celebrations and marijuana!
This book is fantastic and so is Into Thin Air. I have never climbed a mountain nor do I really want to but these two books were all I needed to feel like I have done it.
Who is to say what the universe or "God" intends us to learn in our lifetime? We are alone in that quest. He lived it. It begs the question, whether we owe anything to the people who birthed us. If the universe or God is at the source, isn't it only up to us individually to reconcile this? What haunts me is whether he felt he'd achieved that. Deep in his soul, I think he counted on his family to love him despite his "betrayal" and felt it a necessary sacrifice to his soul purpose. Hard lessons.
this guy was a wanker! Come on now, he starves himself to death which he didn't intend to do(going from his journals) while just being 20 miles off a highway at the height of summer, lol. Just another rich kid who thought the world fucked him over...I feel for his sister and parents and once you look at the story through their eyes you'll see what I mean. You want to watch/read a great story about bravery through the beauty of nature? read Touching the Void.
He had 300$ on him and his social security and a map;he didn't burn them. why the movie says other ?Forsberg found his backpack in 1992.Chris McCandless did not die as the result of eating a poisonous plant or “moldy seeds.
This book basically divides people into two groups. Those that are fine with the lives they have now and want nothing more. And those that dream of having something beyond the here and now. Nothing wrong with either group. We're all free to be you and me. :-)
@ashish : well rashis do it it to realize the god!! but chris didnt have any such kind of motivation to live into the wild!! he just wanted to realize the beauty of nature!!! and thats a big deal
I read the intersting comments made by many who saw this movie red the novel and thaught about the boy who left everything behind but if you are from india you will know that there has been many who have left there worldly comforts and took a retreat in himalayas we call them rishis sanyasis ..they travel through out the rest of the life in himalayas in the name of search for enlightenment or if you can see closure there love for nature and life away frm the so called normal...
I understand his desire to escape from civilization and have a challenging, enlightening one-on-one experience with nature, that makes a lot of sense to me. What I don't understand is his complete lack of common sense and his lack of even the most basic preparation... all while leaving his family in the dark to worry and stress about a loved one. His story is interesting, certainly... but heroic? No, I don't think so.
i think that the boy took a good decision, cause follow his ideals... very few people can realize that the nature has the power at the moment we live on it, and that the world id getting sick with our behaviour....
mccandless love the nature and life, maybe he go too far and that mistake cost his life
Why why does wanting to escape from modern society, mean mental illness? People fled to American in groups of hundreds? - government, adventure, a new way of life, to experience "virgin soil". Why is that now a sickness? I think McCandless was simply an explorer, adventurer, who was born at the wrong time, and couldn't adapt to the society that mankind has built. He died more fulliflled than if he'd tried to mold to this world
I read this book when it came out, and to tell you the truth, I still cannot understand how Krakauer didn't come to the conclusion that this guy was losing it, and obviously in the throes of a serious mental illness..
But hey, it probably wouldn't have been a best seller, and certainly would have never been made into a movie, but at least it would have been honest..
McCandless was a paranoid/schizophrenic, not a hero.. He wasn't escaping anything but his own sick mind.. Truth hurts, sorry..
If you think this fella is suffering from a mental illness then u have serious problems. Where do u live, what do u do? if u dont know how we as humans relate to the real world then fuck off u dont belong here. Society is made by people, everything u know is creatied by people, ITS NOT REAL, wake the fuck up, reality is not what u thinkl it is. Everything I"ve just said is wasted on a person like u, I just hope there's more real people than I think there is out there.
Or, he was nuts... What's a more reasonable conclusion?... Look, I'm sorry you feel I'm talking bad about your hero, but this is my honest opinion about the subject... Has been since I read the book, over a decade ago.. if you cannot handle that without insulting people, then maybe you need to grow up a little bit?..
@eppeone Sorry if I insulted you, everyone's different... To me this man had a realistic view on the world, by realistic I mean down to basics... Take society away what have you got... Maybe nothing for you but for me everything.... Reality. Society is a virus.
Once again... These thoughts and emotions are exactly what the filmmaker is trying to invoke from you... That's filmmaking at it's very core... But be honest with yourself... Why would McCandless 1. Change his name?... 2. Abandon his family, even his beloved sister?... 3. Abandon every friend he made along his journey?... 4. Why are his writings in 3rd person (a sign of paranoia)?... 5. Why did he write about "killing the beast within?"... and finally, why did he die alone?..
To Write in 3rd person is it a sign of paranoia????? do you think ? What are you talking about¡¡¡¡ If all the writers that write in 3rd person ( a lot of them) all they are mad?????
@eppeone I dont feel the need to abandon my family but i do dissapear into the woods now and again. I tell people where im going because while i enjoy being by myself with only the basic necessities i don't wish to die doing so.. the movie touched me because i have a near identical background to this kid being from a good family and have an impeccable academic record... but thing is once you accomplish all that you realize that its nice and all but short lived..
I love this story! Modern day life has such stark difference from even a couple centuries ago that while learning of our history as humans one likely encounters a varying difficulty in relation, as well as, application of the life lessons within human history.
The answer is to please my parents. It's not that you need new car, the fact is that your parents want to buy you new one and that your parents will feel better if they do so.
@faearanel I got the same thing man, it was almost emotional discovering what id been looking for within it. Like the film depicted my state of mind..
i find it quit interesting cause years ago i read about a king in india who left his kingdom and all the luxuries of life and went into the wild and died of starvation i wonder what connection him and that kind had
Don't know in how far ev'thing in the movie is correct, but if so, it kind of shows the reason why peopz that hop out of society to fight it, will always fail.
A certain moment, it handles about 'Alex' that starts organising his actions. To make it easier on 'mself to succeed in them. To have more control.
He's starting a 'new society' all by himself.
If y'want to fight society, at a certain point you will need the society you're trying to fight down. So, stay in it, don't hop out completely ,-)
I think Chris had already romanticized a bit too much the legend of his own life to fully attempt protecting it. His death was suicidal and both this book and the movie are overly sympathetic to it; whether subconsciously or not, he martyred himself to become the Supertramp. I'm not saying he should have loaded up on expert equipment--that would have defeated his purpose. but then again, why cling to a sign of civilization(theBUS)? IMO he was in flight from the world, not in search of the soul.
the BUS was kind of also running from the fake society where everyone has to compete with everyone. and so Chris was. he was looking for the true way of living. i dont know if he had found it or not. anyways, he tried and that's exaclty what's important. not anyone dares.
The BUS was "running from the fake society" too, huh? That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever been refuted with. What he found false about modern living wasn't the spirit of competition, that exists outdoors too it's called the food chain and natural selection. He was very outspoken against materialism, lethargy and conformity. Yes, he had the guts to try, but no patience to do it right;a hypocrite for using guns, failing to learn how to improvise shelter, and wasting animal life.
Danpaco you couldn't have said it better. I've watched movie 5 times and read the book. Something they don't touch on but I feel might have been true, is that he might have been Bipolar. Some very intelligent people do suffer from forms of mental illness. His were not rational acts.
he was amazed by nature and was a very brilliant mind....He saw the true wealth in life and not the materalistic wealth that clouds the world today...inspirational really i feel this guy captured it honestly or the family would of said something about it
McCandless had the right idea, but to venture out into the Alaskan wilderness with the equipment he had, unprepared, is plain foolish. If McCandless valued life and living, he should have used his Ivy League-educated mind to plan his "adventure" so he could live more.
chris eneded his life in a very peacful way for him. he was exactly where he has wanted to be and it was his moment. he was away from civilization which was one of his ultimate goals. he was happy at the time. and its better to live a happy short life, then a long sad life. i dont know if it is possible for him to have been able to do that his entire life, so..i guess it might have been good for him.
at least from the movie's point of view, at the end he realizes he could have been just as happy if he had not left his family and appreciated nature from there. he realizes that alaska and his hometown both share the same sky
Reading what you some of you have wrote I peronally agree with ronamjack a lot. And saying he's ignorant and stupid for going out into the wild unprepared well to that I say everything you need to survive could be found out there you just need to know how to be resourceful, which obviously he was lacking some skills there. But its everyone's choice to choose what they do with there life and if he wanted to go out and rome the earth then so be it.
ints nice that JON KRAKAUER based this book on research and not lack of 02 at 80000m - Its a good book, as is into thin air but both I beleive are questionable in "certain facts"
Try 8848m. Also - Krakauer is pretty open about his 02 deprivation in Into Thin Air, he did heaps of research/interviews to put together the most accurate story as possible - even admits & apologizes for previous mistakes he had released to print. Everyone was affected by o2 deprivation, which helps to explain the tragedy a little more
i believe Jon Krakauer has no credibility for the deceit and lies he told in 'Into Thin Air'. He destroyed a man's reputation and in the process built himself a career, such as we are seeing with this film. I will boycott all of Jon's work and advise everybody else to do the same!
Read Anatoli Boukareev's book 'The Climb'. It gives an alternate account of what REALLY happened on Everest in 96; one of the greatest mountain rescues of all time. Not the account that Krakauer gave.
So you're willing to believe 1 mans testimony against anothers without having been there yourself?! I find that astounding...and shallow. Anatoli had been castigated by Fischer numerous times for not having helped client climbers & this was backed up by eyewitness sherpas who gave their own accounts after the expedition. Of course Boukreev wanted to exonerate himself from Krakauers criticism but he also said that Anatoli helped to rescue ppl later on.
Scaleybloke, you are an idiot. You chose to believe one book over the other. Have you actually read other people's testimonies? You are one stupid hack.
All of you shut the fuck up. Sitting here arguing isn't going to magically rewind back 16 years and all the sudden change Chris's mind of what he did, or how he decided to live his life. If people like you dumb ass's didn't put fourth your irrelevant opinions, I am sure people like Chris wouldn't have left in the first place. No one's opinions count, nor does any of you fighting count, so just shut the fuck up.
sounds like you know him? how are people to blame what this idiot did? no ones to blame but him, you don't bring supplies you die. Simple fact of life. Darwinism at its finest. plain and simple. Also I would like to add, go suck on yo' mommas titty.
YOu are a fat bitch with an outdated fupa. (fat upper pussy area). Ill bet your beefcurtains hang to your knees. GO sit on a stick while looking at a picture of the bus you bitch. Get a life.
He did take supplies. And he survived a long time in Alaska just living off the land. The only thing he needed to survive was a map, which he didn't bring ON PURPOSE, so he could be truly lost in the wild for a while.
I know - it was a tourist map bought from a gas station or something, and McCandless knew that it wouldn't do him any good.
He didn't want to know where he was: that way he could be LOST in the WILDERNESS, even in the 1990s, when there was no longer really any undiscovered land left.
Why did you even reply to my comment just to point out the tiniest detail...?
I love all the negative thumbs handed out for people saying he was dumb. Would you guys go to the wilderness with pretty much nothing but a gun and some rice? I sure as hell wouldn't. Nothing to take away from him being a great kid and all, always helping others first but cmon lets be prepared here. Nature is no joke and you will die with no supply's.
kottyking, you and all other overprivileged assholes on this board know nothing about true life. have you any idea how many people there are in the world right now, without aid of guns and supplies, who actually have to survive in the wild? people have been doing it for ehm, 100s of thousands of years. seriously dude, you know nothing about survival.
Wow you are fucking stupid. Your making assumptions when you know nothing about me. I understand people can survive with out things. This, unfortunately, is what happens when some ignorant person goes to the woods under prepared. They die. But we dont hear about any other person this happens too because they arn't some "priveledged" college educated person.
If you knew much you would know that he lasted over 100 days simply living of the land by himself. he purposely lacked a hatchet or topographic map or compass, tools deemed necessary by alaskans to survive. He died by his own oversight, the river being raging from snow melt and from an unlucky ingestion of edible potato that was posoined with mold high in alkoids which caused him to starve.
Thank you so much. I think you're one of the only people on here that actually knows what they're talking about. Chris McCandless knew very well what he was getting into as he made his way to Alaska. He purposely did this, and you know why? Because, and this was stated more than once in the film, the book, and sentiments regarding Chris. People are mean to each other. Just mean. And he didn't want to be a part of a hateful society. And, it was real life to him. Not fantasy, life. And that's it.
McCandless is a legend, comments from the likes of "kottyking" are simply because they dont have the brain capacity to understand McCandless. They are plastic.
If i went out into the wild with nothing and died would that make me a legend? Trust me I understand where he is coming from. I am a 23 year old male and sometimes I wanna quit work and go on adventures too, but guess what this is the real world and you can't pull that shit.
Of course you can. That is the whole point. You just have to suffer the consequences of your actions, which he did. Did he have regrets? Most probably, but what choice in life is important if it does not involve throwing yourself out there?
You just lack ambition it's very easy. I've had loads of jobs just for a few weeks then used that money to buy a plane ticket somewhere then spend the next few weeks walking back, try it before you get tied down.
LOL....the irony of telling someone ELSE they are 'tied down', then explaining that you fly b/c YOU have to get home quickly so as to NOT miss the next school term...sounds like the kettle calling the pot black...
You can actually, This dude just proved it... There are enough people who have done it. Read Jon Krakauers book, there are some good examples in there.
I get what you mean about having to be prepared and all that, but the whole "McCandless psyche" was actually (I think) that this isn't the real world, and nature is. He was trying to escape from the artificial and find reality - it wasn't an adventure, it was real life to him. I also don't get all this stuff about him being a "stupid retard" or whatever - I think he would have accepted that form of death as fitting to his way of life, and I think that it was probably a good way to end it.
just finished the book and typing this post thru tears. my heart grieves for Chris, for his family and all who loved him. as a mother of two gorgeous boys i am deeply moved by his story. my heart weeps and yet fills with compassion and a hope that my boys will wisely, courageously chase their dreams. all that Chris wanted was peace, like we all do or atleast should. Krakauer obviously understood this young man, captured and perfectly conveyed Chris' soul as he penned Into The Wild. CHEERS!
I see too many people judging Mc Candless as a stupid incompetent, well I disagree with that. He made obviously mistakes that were fatal in the end, but he was no fool. He just had the guts to do what many young men, me among them, had dreamed about. He did better and survived longer of any averange people in those conditions. He was not an averange man.
I read the book and watched the movie, really good stuff as always from Krakauer. I was moved by the story because as a youth I also dreamed about going alone into the wilderness of North America. Same thing abouth his other book Into Thin Air which I couldn't help from reading it five times!
You are right, the book is great. Krakauer also narrates his solo expedition to climb the Devils Thumb in chapters 14 and 15. His descriptions are so vivid and thrilling that you feel the cold of the icy field. I'm looking forward to read his other book, "Into Thin Air".
I'm looking forward to it. I haven't read a good adventure book since Thor Heyerdahl's "Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft". You should read this one, too.
I love how when people see someone who resents their way of living and can plausibly find a far more fulfilling alternative, they get defensive and rave and rave and rave. It makes me sort of wonder if you're not all bitter that you're drones, and Chris saw that it would be a waste of a lifetime to join you while he was still young and could break away.
apparently when he arrived there he only 20 pounds of rice, and only a few other provisions, and of course the gun (not sure if he realy had the colapseable fishing rod). If it was me, I'de never hike in there without fishing tackle.
I'm sure he had more accessories. But you have to admit, what he had limited still made his almost 4 month survival amazingly inspirational and fascinating with no doubt of fear.
no doubt he was a brave soul. According to the film there were other factors at work; ie;family hassles. Those matters aside, you never see, or i didn't see the fishing tackle (in the bus) that the Hal Holbrook character offered him. I checked the site on google earth; (i'm an aussie) and apparently, 6 miles away from the bus there is, or was a bucket and rope, to hall ur ass across the river. Damn! this story has got me fasinated.
Yes, there was. If he would have walked down I think the West of the River, he would have hit a bucket to carry hunters across the river, but he didn't think of it. John Krakauer explains it in his book.
obviously monkey is too one-dimensional to comprehend my comments.i take issue with the selfish nature of chris's act,not the act itself.all he had to do was call in to his family or drop them a post card or something every once in a while so they knew he was alive.yet in his self-ish act of self-searching, he becomes the personification of everything he detested in society. but this explanation will be waaaay over monkey boy's head,guaranteed. ps. shomakhang, i love the name! *wink wink*
becuase chris was so selfish in all he did to help the people he came in contact with right? he was such a selfish person that he allowd those RV peoples relationship fall apart? no i don't believe so... infact he helped them a great deal... the same with the older man he met just before he left for the alaskan wilderness... i'm so one dimensional... thats so hurtful... who cares abotu the society he detested... he was being happy... he didn't do it to make a point to us... he did it for himself
please, let's quit glorifying this chris guy already. self, self, self. i'm sooo tired of this "way of being." one CAN transcend oneself without selfishly dropping off the face of the earth and not telling his mom where he is or what he is doing. sean penn, another selfish egotistical moron, understandably would put a guy like chris on a pedestal...cuz all of hollywood glorifies self-adoration, self-aggrandizement, etc.
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did your mother abandon you as a child or something?... or are you 47 and still living with her? because it sounds to me like you're obsessing over an inability to let go... are you a mother? did your son/daughter dissapear for five minutes to take a piss without asking?... i'm sorry i guess growing up an making choices isn't allowed now... is it? try dwelling on something more substantial then his mother won't you
i have no problem leaving behind the materialism of this world, but not keeping in touch w/ his mother??? not even a word?? his selfish actions accurately represents the individualism of western society. in other parts of the world, the collective comes before the individual. chris fell victim to the selfish, individual nature of westernism, the very thing he detested. so, indiamikefox or whatever your name is, thoroughly investigate a matter before you make your point. ignorance is bliss, eh?
Terrible for his mom? maybe his mom should of paid more attention to him and took the hint that money and wealth ment nothing to him. No pressure let him live...they didnt so he was a motivated man of his word and did what most of us dream of but are too affraid to accomplish..he left politics, wealth and basicly left the war of society behind to live with the peaceful wild...hey may have made an attempt to come back but god laid him to rest there for areason,us to see the unimportance of wealth
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I was the hippie Chris met on the road. In truth, Chris made a move on my and I said, "No way!" I think he was either lonely or thought I was a woman. Not his fault, though. I would make a pretty good-looking woman. At least that is what my boyfriend tells me.
I dont think anybody should ever vist the bus ever again! theres a reason he was there by himself he never wanted anybody around him so people who visit the bus are not honoring him, i believe he would be really pissed that people make plans to go all the way up there and steal shit from the bus and try to part it on ebay like his boots and part of the mattress thats just really fucked up!
Read the book. In the end he relized that to be happy is to share your happiness with someone else. In the end he was finally able to start forgiving he was finally going to go home. He could careless if anyone went to the bus the bus doesnt matter. It was him finding himself. the bus and where hes was has doesnt matter. If you dont get it then i guess your not ment too
Read the book. In the end he relized that to be happy is to share your happiness with someone else. In the end he was finally able to start forgiving he was finally going to go home. He could careless if anyone went to the bus the bus doesnt matter. It was him finding himself. the bus and where hes was has doesnt matter. If you dont get it then i guess your not ment too
That guy was great fuck you cunts who say he was a dumb ass, fuck ''planning and maping'' all you people make me sick you FUCKING consumers they say they run this ''country'' but its us living off the land
"fuck ''planning and maping'' all you people make me sick you FUCKING consumers they say they run this ''country'' but its us living off the land "
Whatever, man...having a map and a plan let me go into the darkest wildest places in North America and come back to do it again...nothing "consumer" about being prepared.
People are forgetting that his parents made him hate the superficial world. Or at least that's how they made him feel about the world....the movie showed how he helped each person he accountered along the way...there was a message in it for all of us. And I agree with a comment someone made that there is a lot of anger and negativity here...a common problem with people in the world today.
why do you all call him an idiot.. he did die an whether or not it was starvation or toxicity of plants he ate atleast he did something.. why not commend the fact that he followed himself rather than others.. death is but a point we all reach.. when he reached it he was ill-prepared that does not make him an idiot that makes him an adventurer.. the earliest adventures couldn't be prepared for everything--they couldn't call ahead an find out what they needed..keep living keep trying RIP CJM
What do you do in your day to day life? Obviously not enough to call yourself an adventurer. Life is an adventure, for everyone, in their own way. Don't you think? My ancestors and your ancestors survived on a lot less than he did. No gun, no rubber boots, no magic bus. Yet, you praise him and not your heritage. I see many faults in your character. No movies made about people who survived 50 years in the wild. Families have been raised under less luxuries.
faults in my character?did i put down my ancestors?did i put down yours?no but in this day and age most people sit all day an play games all day rather then going out into the world an doing something.i was merely commending his attempt.what was the last adventure you went on?who are you to criticize me?you're clearly a follower if you can't atleast acknowledge the attempt he made to live without luxury.could you live a day without a tv?doubtful.how bout a day without a microwave?again doubtful
faults in my character?did i put down my ancestors?did i put down yours?no but in this day and age most people sit all day an play games all day rather then going out into the world an doing something.i was merely commending his attempt.what was the last adventure you went on?who are you to criticize me?you're clearly a follower if you can't atleast acknowledge the attempt he made to live without luxury.could you live a day without a tv?doubtful.how bout a day without a microwave?again doubtful
I'm reading alot of negativity. I don't like to see that. Any kind of negativity towards another person is showing a weakness that they have inside. Is anyone here perfect in every single way. No, probably not. I believe that in the start of Chris's journey it wasn't about survival, it was learning about the creature that we call human. The good and the bad. And in the end we only have the truth he left behind.
in the end the guy was an idiot....he is supposed to be in the middle of nowhere yet hes just in an old bus that hunters used to use...he is in prime hunting territory and he could have escaped but he didnt even know where he was or which way to go that spells...idiot and why did he run out of food in the first place ? one less idiot in the world and thats a good thing
he starved to death, nothing more. if he'd had a map of the area he could have hiked out before he got too weak. he was only 22miles/2 day hike away from the Parks Highway...also, if he'd gone up the river a bit he would have found a hand pully/bucket that he could have used to cross the river. he was in prime moose hunting territory. that's why the bus was there, it was a make shift shelter made by moose hunters.
cholulasaucehot, simply put, your the biggest idiot probably in the world. Why dont you keep your mouth shut unless you have something intelligent to say. I mean how could you call him a idiot? What are you 8? I bet you still live at home with your mommy and would cry if she didnt hold your hand to cross the street.
he drowned in his own self-absorbed quest to alienate his family.....i was speaking metaphorically you clown. He was a dum ass not a hero.....ran out of food ...starvin and freezing to death cause of piss poor planning and as a last resort tried to flee in horrible weather conditions ..certain suicide that spells dum-ass in my book he's not a hero who lived life he was a greedy self absorbed idiot who cared only for himself and hurt his family ..yes he drowned not in the river however dum asses
His story inspired me to trek across the alps for 2 weeks alone, which I have returned from only today. I'll be travelling to Scotland in a week to live rough in the mountains for a month. I can't tell you how much Jon has helped me discover a new direction and freedom in my life.
tipsycat27 1 week ago
In a way, I'm jealous of this guy. I think there's a part in everybody that wishes they could just take off, leave it all behind. That's why his story is so captivating for so many people. We're all just a little bit jealous..
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atlantisartemis 1 month ago
@martian59 I'm so sorry, but it was not complete stupidity. He may had a little bit in him but he inspired us all to realize that God gave us so much blessings in life, and it's not just materialistic things, but nature. He got a sense of courage to go out of his easy lifestyle and comfort zone to seek out truth. It's not something any of us would do nowadays. We rely on technology, and advanced lifestyle's which actually corrupts our lives. He's definitely someone to look up too.
Naruaddict19 8 months ago
Why do people popularize, idolize or otherwise give any recognition to a person who acted with complete stupidity?
martian59 8 months ago
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BiscutLad 5 months ago
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@martian59 Because McCandless accomplished something that most people never do, and that's live out his dreams. He showed self-determination, persistence, and a true display of human spirit. He died alive.
P.S. You're a bitch.
BiscutLad 5 months ago
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Krakauer is not a novelist. Into the Wild is not a novel.
grammartroll 8 months ago
Krakauer is not a novelist. Into the Wild is not a novel. A novel is fiction.
grammartroll 8 months ago
Kraukauer is amazing he survived the mount everest disaster and still is comforatble talking about great guy
rockies109 9 months ago
I LOVE both the BOOK and the MOVIE!!! It'll make u question ur existence as of now... b/c no matter how much money u make, ur gonna leave all this... and won't find true happiness... living in a old rubble debris for the rest of ur LIFE is the poorest human being EVER.. thinking that small land is of URS!!! LIVE THE LIFE FOR OTHERS AND BE IN THE WILD!!!
1543fiitl 9 months ago
For those who want to find more about the true story behind Chris McCandless, here's a link to the write-up of the documentary The Call of the Wild by its maker, which states all facts:
tifilms[dot]com/wild/call_debunked.htm
I consider The Call of the Wild to be even better than Into the Wild by the way, it's way more truthful to the story which allows it to have an even more powerful message.
ParaSoar 9 months ago
Chris was certainly an inspirational person, his view on life ignites a desire that's inside all of us to experience life to the fullest before we die. It's too bad though that Into The Wild and the book, while still great, don't show some very important facts. For example, he didn't die of poisoning but simply of starvation, and he did have money on him as well as several ID's AND a MAP!
It's all explained in the documentary called The Call of the Wild, made simultaneously with Into the Wild.
ParaSoar 9 months ago
What a lot of people don't realize is that krakauer wouldn't give the rights to sean penn unless Walt and Billie McCandless were ok with it. Walt and Billie approved the movie because it showed Chris as a hero. If you read the book you would know that Krakauer does not make Chris look like a hero, he simply tells the story and at times relates it to his life stories. Krakauer wanted the reader to form there own oppinion on chris. Leaving your parents forever unannounced is not very hero like
SkiFantic 9 months ago
One of my favorite movies but what people forget, its hard alot of times, if you dont have money its hard to get water and food everyday, sleeping outside etc everybody at one point in their life want to pack their bags and go, but in the end wont do it cause it is a big decision. I know, i will be leaving very soon leaving everything behind myself, without money and on foot but my mind is playing tricks on me everyday because society made brain to think logicly.Check my profile if you like
1JustKai1 1 year ago
Why should u live into the wild? I cant find any reason! I'am more happy to spend my life with familly, friends, soccer, babes, celebrations and marijuana!
hejdamp1 1 year ago
@hejdamp1 Read the book.
punkxdilapidated 1 year ago
Jon Krakauer is a spin doctor. The real story : Watch the Documentary "Call of the Wild" to get the real deal.
oatstao 1 year ago
@oatstao concur the spin...
zetasong 1 year ago
This book is fantastic and so is Into Thin Air. I have never climbed a mountain nor do I really want to but these two books were all I needed to feel like I have done it.
jvs512000 1 year ago
@jvs512000 I know right, you come home from work or school and you are sucked into the wilderness ass soon as you turn the cover.
Bushinit002 1 year ago
SEATTLE!!! yayyyy
afterthefact15 1 year ago
amazing movie...the ending haunts me:(..
cliff712 1 year ago
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i fucking hate reading this guy's books
jacktroublemaker 1 year ago
Who is to say what the universe or "God" intends us to learn in our lifetime? We are alone in that quest. He lived it. It begs the question, whether we owe anything to the people who birthed us. If the universe or God is at the source, isn't it only up to us individually to reconcile this? What haunts me is whether he felt he'd achieved that. Deep in his soul, I think he counted on his family to love him despite his "betrayal" and felt it a necessary sacrifice to his soul purpose. Hard lessons.
Exit48Kate 1 year ago
This guy is a lier, he´s a stone. anatoli is everest. lier, how write lies and sell books for dumb peoeple how knos nothing about climbing. lier
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this guy was a wanker! Come on now, he starves himself to death which he didn't intend to do(going from his journals) while just being 20 miles off a highway at the height of summer, lol. Just another rich kid who thought the world fucked him over...I feel for his sister and parents and once you look at the story through their eyes you'll see what I mean. You want to watch/read a great story about bravery through the beauty of nature? read Touching the Void.
guydwy 1 year ago
He had 300$ on him and his social security and a map;he didn't burn them. why the movie says other ?Forsberg found his backpack in 1992.Chris McCandless did not die as the result of eating a poisonous plant or “moldy seeds.
Humanistiqua 1 year ago
@Humanistiqua How do you know? What did he die of then?
Hyrshau 1 year ago
This book basically divides people into two groups. Those that are fine with the lives they have now and want nothing more. And those that dream of having something beyond the here and now. Nothing wrong with either group. We're all free to be you and me. :-)
lacouerfairy 1 year ago
nice one jon....raked in a few bucks for that
freddysmith123 1 year ago
@ashish : well rashis do it it to realize the god!! but chris didnt have any such kind of motivation to live into the wild!! he just wanted to realize the beauty of nature!!! and thats a big deal
abhayoberoi2122 1 year ago
If you want a clipped form synopsis of this movie just watch the way he says "Why would I want a new car"?
curiousgeorge555 1 year ago
I read the intersting comments made by many who saw this movie red the novel and thaught about the boy who left everything behind but if you are from india you will know that there has been many who have left there worldly comforts and took a retreat in himalayas we call them rishis sanyasis ..they travel through out the rest of the life in himalayas in the name of search for enlightenment or if you can see closure there love for nature and life away frm the so called normal...
ashish7sinha 1 year ago
@ashish7sinha i think i will do this...any sage advice before i head for India?
freddysmith123 1 year ago
@freddysmith123 welcome to india....
famousdash 1 year ago
I understand his desire to escape from civilization and have a challenging, enlightening one-on-one experience with nature, that makes a lot of sense to me. What I don't understand is his complete lack of common sense and his lack of even the most basic preparation... all while leaving his family in the dark to worry and stress about a loved one. His story is interesting, certainly... but heroic? No, I don't think so.
caleb462 1 year ago
i think that the boy took a good decision, cause follow his ideals... very few people can realize that the nature has the power at the moment we live on it, and that the world id getting sick with our behaviour....
mccandless love the nature and life, maybe he go too far and that mistake cost his life
lachicalimonada 1 year ago
Jon Krakauer is a lying, sensationalistic piece of shit - period.
cushinb 1 year ago
Krakauer is the greatest English, non fiction writer alive. Period.
tz2782 1 year ago
Why why does wanting to escape from modern society, mean mental illness? People fled to American in groups of hundreds? - government, adventure, a new way of life, to experience "virgin soil". Why is that now a sickness? I think McCandless was simply an explorer, adventurer, who was born at the wrong time, and couldn't adapt to the society that mankind has built. He died more fulliflled than if he'd tried to mold to this world
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brilliantlycreated 1 year ago
I read this book when it came out, and to tell you the truth, I still cannot understand how Krakauer didn't come to the conclusion that this guy was losing it, and obviously in the throes of a serious mental illness..
But hey, it probably wouldn't have been a best seller, and certainly would have never been made into a movie, but at least it would have been honest..
McCandless was a paranoid/schizophrenic, not a hero.. He wasn't escaping anything but his own sick mind.. Truth hurts, sorry..
eppeone 1 year ago
@eppeone
If you think this fella is suffering from a mental illness then u have serious problems. Where do u live, what do u do? if u dont know how we as humans relate to the real world then fuck off u dont belong here. Society is made by people, everything u know is creatied by people, ITS NOT REAL, wake the fuck up, reality is not what u thinkl it is. Everything I"ve just said is wasted on a person like u, I just hope there's more real people than I think there is out there.
eyece2009 1 year ago
Or, he was nuts... What's a more reasonable conclusion?... Look, I'm sorry you feel I'm talking bad about your hero, but this is my honest opinion about the subject... Has been since I read the book, over a decade ago.. if you cannot handle that without insulting people, then maybe you need to grow up a little bit?..
eppeone 1 year ago
@eppeone Sorry if I insulted you, everyone's different... To me this man had a realistic view on the world, by realistic I mean down to basics... Take society away what have you got... Maybe nothing for you but for me everything.... Reality. Society is a virus.
eyece2009 1 year ago
@eyece2009
Once again... These thoughts and emotions are exactly what the filmmaker is trying to invoke from you... That's filmmaking at it's very core... But be honest with yourself... Why would McCandless 1. Change his name?... 2. Abandon his family, even his beloved sister?... 3. Abandon every friend he made along his journey?... 4. Why are his writings in 3rd person (a sign of paranoia)?... 5. Why did he write about "killing the beast within?"... and finally, why did he die alone?..
eppeone 1 year ago
To Write in 3rd person is it a sign of paranoia????? do you think ? What are you talking about¡¡¡¡ If all the writers that write in 3rd person ( a lot of them) all they are mad?????
Natitajimena 1 year ago
@eppeone I dont feel the need to abandon my family but i do dissapear into the woods now and again. I tell people where im going because while i enjoy being by myself with only the basic necessities i don't wish to die doing so.. the movie touched me because i have a near identical background to this kid being from a good family and have an impeccable academic record... but thing is once you accomplish all that you realize that its nice and all but short lived..
budda10000 1 year ago
Just read the book. Gripping. Incredibly well written, a page turner which I finished in 2 days.
0rbis2010 1 year ago 3
I love this story! Modern day life has such stark difference from even a couple centuries ago that while learning of our history as humans one likely encounters a varying difficulty in relation, as well as, application of the life lessons within human history.
deblong1980 2 years ago
como me gusto esta pelicula, muy buena!
y drigira por sean penn q es un grande! =)
es al final basada en historia real mmm. eso es interesante!
VickyCullen86 2 years ago
why would i want a new car? what a powerful question. The one i have works okay, it may be dented, beat down but it serves me okay,
czogg99 2 years ago 35
@czogg99 and anybody who cares.
The answer is to please my parents. It's not that you need new car, the fact is that your parents want to buy you new one and that your parents will feel better if they do so.
Bryzeida13 1 year ago
@czogg99 What? How is that powerful? It's powerful that he's not a rich brat?
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KendalSidneyoi531 2 years ago
... I found, what I've been searchin' for within' this movie - that's why I love the story and its soul so much!!! ...
faearanel 2 years ago 4
@faearanel I got the same thing man, it was almost emotional discovering what id been looking for within it. Like the film depicted my state of mind..
SJPlank 1 year ago
Jon will be appearing on Good Morning, America this coming Monday.
mkl62 2 years ago
such a good book. alot of inspiration in it.:)
thejackisback 2 years ago
i find it quit interesting cause years ago i read about a king in india who left his kingdom and all the luxuries of life and went into the wild and died of starvation i wonder what connection him and that kind had
bluejeanss 2 years ago
Eh ... I think you mean the Lord Buddha, bluejeanss.
Nautilus1972 2 years ago
Don't know in how far ev'thing in the movie is correct, but if so, it kind of shows the reason why peopz that hop out of society to fight it, will always fail.
A certain moment, it handles about 'Alex' that starts organising his actions. To make it easier on 'mself to succeed in them. To have more control.
He's starting a 'new society' all by himself.
If y'want to fight society, at a certain point you will need the society you're trying to fight down. So, stay in it, don't hop out completely ,-)
Bennekip 2 years ago
I think Chris had already romanticized a bit too much the legend of his own life to fully attempt protecting it. His death was suicidal and both this book and the movie are overly sympathetic to it; whether subconsciously or not, he martyred himself to become the Supertramp. I'm not saying he should have loaded up on expert equipment--that would have defeated his purpose. but then again, why cling to a sign of civilization(theBUS)? IMO he was in flight from the world, not in search of the soul.
Danpaco 2 years ago
the BUS was kind of also running from the fake society where everyone has to compete with everyone. and so Chris was. he was looking for the true way of living. i dont know if he had found it or not. anyways, he tried and that's exaclty what's important. not anyone dares.
pripllo 2 years ago
The BUS was "running from the fake society" too, huh? That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever been refuted with. What he found false about modern living wasn't the spirit of competition, that exists outdoors too it's called the food chain and natural selection. He was very outspoken against materialism, lethargy and conformity. Yes, he had the guts to try, but no patience to do it right;a hypocrite for using guns, failing to learn how to improvise shelter, and wasting animal life.
Danpaco 2 years ago
Danpaco you couldn't have said it better. I've watched movie 5 times and read the book. Something they don't touch on but I feel might have been true, is that he might have been Bipolar. Some very intelligent people do suffer from forms of mental illness. His were not rational acts.
mistyluv8 2 years ago
he was amazed by nature and was a very brilliant mind....He saw the true wealth in life and not the materalistic wealth that clouds the world today...inspirational really i feel this guy captured it honestly or the family would of said something about it
011lifeAdream235 2 years ago 23
@Danpaco
Correct... He was obviously mentally disturbed..
eppeone 1 year ago
Chris should have watched a video called Alone in the Wilderness. It was just to bad that those two didn't run into each other in Alaska.
dontlikenumbers 2 years ago
that guy was awesome! i've seen that
isthisirony 2 years ago
McCandless had the right idea, but to venture out into the Alaskan wilderness with the equipment he had, unprepared, is plain foolish. If McCandless valued life and living, he should have used his Ivy League-educated mind to plan his "adventure" so he could live more.
mkitahara 2 years ago
chris eneded his life in a very peacful way for him. he was exactly where he has wanted to be and it was his moment. he was away from civilization which was one of his ultimate goals. he was happy at the time. and its better to live a happy short life, then a long sad life. i dont know if it is possible for him to have been able to do that his entire life, so..i guess it might have been good for him.
SuburbanLongboarders 2 years ago 4
at least from the movie's point of view, at the end he realizes he could have been just as happy if he had not left his family and appreciated nature from there. he realizes that alaska and his hometown both share the same sky
mmp12 2 years ago
Reading what you some of you have wrote I peronally agree with ronamjack a lot. And saying he's ignorant and stupid for going out into the wild unprepared well to that I say everything you need to survive could be found out there you just need to know how to be resourceful, which obviously he was lacking some skills there. But its everyone's choice to choose what they do with there life and if he wanted to go out and rome the earth then so be it.
Flip4910 2 years ago
ints nice that JON KRAKAUER based this book on research and not lack of 02 at 80000m - Its a good book, as is into thin air but both I beleive are questionable in "certain facts"
jon3m2007 2 years ago
Try 8848m. Also - Krakauer is pretty open about his 02 deprivation in Into Thin Air, he did heaps of research/interviews to put together the most accurate story as possible - even admits & apologizes for previous mistakes he had released to print. Everyone was affected by o2 deprivation, which helps to explain the tragedy a little more
josemccuervo 2 years ago
At 0:09 that scene wasn't in the movie.
EvilWhiteRanger 2 years ago 2
you're right!!! it could be cut
federicapara 2 years ago
i believe Jon Krakauer has no credibility for the deceit and lies he told in 'Into Thin Air'. He destroyed a man's reputation and in the process built himself a career, such as we are seeing with this film. I will boycott all of Jon's work and advise everybody else to do the same!
Scaleybloke 2 years ago
What? WhY? What happened? Post an article or something. Thanks.
OsovsCerdo 2 years ago
Read Anatoli Boukareev's book 'The Climb'. It gives an alternate account of what REALLY happened on Everest in 96; one of the greatest mountain rescues of all time. Not the account that Krakauer gave.
Scaleybloke 2 years ago
Thanks again.
OsovsCerdo 2 years ago
So you're willing to believe 1 mans testimony against anothers without having been there yourself?! I find that astounding...and shallow. Anatoli had been castigated by Fischer numerous times for not having helped client climbers & this was backed up by eyewitness sherpas who gave their own accounts after the expedition. Of course Boukreev wanted to exonerate himself from Krakauers criticism but he also said that Anatoli helped to rescue ppl later on.
maccermacnab 2 years ago
Scaleybloke, you are an idiot. You chose to believe one book over the other. Have you actually read other people's testimonies? You are one stupid hack.
SmartPorcupine 2 years ago
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pinkertonmusic 2 years ago
sometimes i feel like mccandless got slightly too caught up in his own yearnings.... if that makes any sense
certifiedchillin420 2 years ago
It does, he was selfish in a way. But you can forgive him for I think, because he was still so young.
interrupted102 2 years ago
loved this movie! A part from the length of it, it's an amazing movie
annescott20 3 years ago
Awesome movie! Now I really want to read the book!
PrairieFire8 3 years ago
Great video good explaination.
eal1011 3 years ago
this is the adventure of the human spirit, enjoy it and learn from it
mcnabbistheman 3 years ago 3
All of you shut the fuck up. Sitting here arguing isn't going to magically rewind back 16 years and all the sudden change Chris's mind of what he did, or how he decided to live his life. If people like you dumb ass's didn't put fourth your irrelevant opinions, I am sure people like Chris wouldn't have left in the first place. No one's opinions count, nor does any of you fighting count, so just shut the fuck up.
alyssadone 3 years ago 4
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sounds like you know him? how are people to blame what this idiot did? no ones to blame but him, you don't bring supplies you die. Simple fact of life. Darwinism at its finest. plain and simple. Also I would like to add, go suck on yo' mommas titty.
kottyking 3 years ago
sounds like you know him? god shut up, and kill yourself.
alyssadone 3 years ago
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YOu are a fat bitch with an outdated fupa. (fat upper pussy area). Ill bet your beefcurtains hang to your knees. GO sit on a stick while looking at a picture of the bus you bitch. Get a life.
kottyking 3 years ago
He did take supplies. And he survived a long time in Alaska just living off the land. The only thing he needed to survive was a map, which he didn't bring ON PURPOSE, so he could be truly lost in the wild for a while.
ukulazy 3 years ago
Actually, he did bring a map. It wasn't a topographical map though, so it was really of no use to him. It could have saved his life.
drewbiedoo2 3 years ago
I know - it was a tourist map bought from a gas station or something, and McCandless knew that it wouldn't do him any good.
He didn't want to know where he was: that way he could be LOST in the WILDERNESS, even in the 1990s, when there was no longer really any undiscovered land left.
Why did you even reply to my comment just to point out the tiniest detail...?
ukulazy 3 years ago
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My dream is to do a bunch of blow off a strippers ass till my nose bleeds.... Should I do it? Sounds like a good idea....
kottyking 3 years ago
If that is their dream then yeah, why not go with just rice and a gun?
McCandless lived and died by his own rules, this guy was no idiot. He knew the risks, that was the beauty of his adventure.
The ultimate challenge in his opinion, that must not be forgotten.
jc160282 3 years ago 2
I love all the negative thumbs handed out for people saying he was dumb. Would you guys go to the wilderness with pretty much nothing but a gun and some rice? I sure as hell wouldn't. Nothing to take away from him being a great kid and all, always helping others first but cmon lets be prepared here. Nature is no joke and you will die with no supply's.
kottyking 3 years ago
kottyking, you and all other overprivileged assholes on this board know nothing about true life. have you any idea how many people there are in the world right now, without aid of guns and supplies, who actually have to survive in the wild? people have been doing it for ehm, 100s of thousands of years. seriously dude, you know nothing about survival.
SmartPorcupine 2 years ago
Wow you are fucking stupid. Your making assumptions when you know nothing about me. I understand people can survive with out things. This, unfortunately, is what happens when some ignorant person goes to the woods under prepared. They die. But we dont hear about any other person this happens too because they arn't some "priveledged" college educated person.
kottyking 2 years ago
If you knew much you would know that he lasted over 100 days simply living of the land by himself. he purposely lacked a hatchet or topographic map or compass, tools deemed necessary by alaskans to survive. He died by his own oversight, the river being raging from snow melt and from an unlucky ingestion of edible potato that was posoined with mold high in alkoids which caused him to starve.
spankycorkforker 2 years ago 5
Thank you so much. I think you're one of the only people on here that actually knows what they're talking about. Chris McCandless knew very well what he was getting into as he made his way to Alaska. He purposely did this, and you know why? Because, and this was stated more than once in the film, the book, and sentiments regarding Chris. People are mean to each other. Just mean. And he didn't want to be a part of a hateful society. And, it was real life to him. Not fantasy, life. And that's it.
BellaBooLovethsThou 2 years ago 4
McCandless is a legend, comments from the likes of "kottyking" are simply because they dont have the brain capacity to understand McCandless. They are plastic.
jc160282 3 years ago
If i went out into the wild with nothing and died would that make me a legend? Trust me I understand where he is coming from. I am a 23 year old male and sometimes I wanna quit work and go on adventures too, but guess what this is the real world and you can't pull that shit.
kottyking 3 years ago
Of course you can. That is the whole point. You just have to suffer the consequences of your actions, which he did. Did he have regrets? Most probably, but what choice in life is important if it does not involve throwing yourself out there?
JonathanWendin 3 years ago
You just lack ambition it's very easy. I've had loads of jobs just for a few weeks then used that money to buy a plane ticket somewhere then spend the next few weeks walking back, try it before you get tied down.
supertramp120 3 years ago
Thats not exactly being nomadic. Why spend the money on a plane ticket? You are missing half of the experience. Buy a plane ticket and walk home?
drewbiedoo2 3 years ago
England is a hard country to escape from without money and also I have only a few weeks in between college term times
supertramp120 3 years ago
LOL....the irony of telling someone ELSE they are 'tied down', then explaining that you fly b/c YOU have to get home quickly so as to NOT miss the next school term...sounds like the kettle calling the pot black...
trinitymike 2 years ago
You can actually, This dude just proved it... There are enough people who have done it. Read Jon Krakauers book, there are some good examples in there.
interrupted102 2 years ago
I get what you mean about having to be prepared and all that, but the whole "McCandless psyche" was actually (I think) that this isn't the real world, and nature is. He was trying to escape from the artificial and find reality - it wasn't an adventure, it was real life to him. I also don't get all this stuff about him being a "stupid retard" or whatever - I think he would have accepted that form of death as fitting to his way of life, and I think that it was probably a good way to end it.
ronamjack 2 years ago 2
even better book was 'into thin air'. it details events from the 1996 everest expedition in which many climbers died. great read.
by2004 3 years ago
just finished the book and typing this post thru tears. my heart grieves for Chris, for his family and all who loved him. as a mother of two gorgeous boys i am deeply moved by his story. my heart weeps and yet fills with compassion and a hope that my boys will wisely, courageously chase their dreams. all that Chris wanted was peace, like we all do or atleast should. Krakauer obviously understood this young man, captured and perfectly conveyed Chris' soul as he penned Into The Wild. CHEERS!
HunyBuny1116 3 years ago 6
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someguyyoudontcare 3 years ago
Going into the alaskan wilderness without a map is dumb! What do you call that, smart?
kottyking 3 years ago
he had a map you fuck..
he was injured and weak
7charms7 3 years ago
I see too many people judging Mc Candless as a stupid incompetent, well I disagree with that. He made obviously mistakes that were fatal in the end, but he was no fool. He just had the guts to do what many young men, me among them, had dreamed about. He did better and survived longer of any averange people in those conditions. He was not an averange man.
stangeli7 3 years ago 5
I read the book and watched the movie, really good stuff as always from Krakauer. I was moved by the story because as a youth I also dreamed about going alone into the wilderness of North America. Same thing abouth his other book Into Thin Air which I couldn't help from reading it five times!
stangeli7 3 years ago
You are right, the book is great. Krakauer also narrates his solo expedition to climb the Devils Thumb in chapters 14 and 15. His descriptions are so vivid and thrilling that you feel the cold of the icy field. I'm looking forward to read his other book, "Into Thin Air".
AlanAlan2001 3 years ago 3
You won't be disappointed Alan, "Into the Wild" is good, but "Into Thin Air" is even better, at least in my opinion.
stangeli7 3 years ago
I'm looking forward to it. I haven't read a good adventure book since Thor Heyerdahl's "Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft". You should read this one, too.
AlanAlan2001 3 years ago
I love how when people see someone who resents their way of living and can plausibly find a far more fulfilling alternative, they get defensive and rave and rave and rave. It makes me sort of wonder if you're not all bitter that you're drones, and Chris saw that it would be a waste of a lifetime to join you while he was still young and could break away.
TakingBackTeatime45 3 years ago
us? your writing your opinion on a computer, right?
mikester76 3 years ago
wow..idiots arguing; how original
lucienjames 3 years ago 4
apparently when he arrived there he only 20 pounds of rice, and only a few other provisions, and of course the gun (not sure if he realy had the colapseable fishing rod). If it was me, I'de never hike in there without fishing tackle.
valland55 3 years ago
I'm sure he had more accessories. But you have to admit, what he had limited still made his almost 4 month survival amazingly inspirational and fascinating with no doubt of fear.
rhcpguitarar 3 years ago 2
no doubt he was a brave soul. According to the film there were other factors at work; ie;family hassles. Those matters aside, you never see, or i didn't see the fishing tackle (in the bus) that the Hal Holbrook character offered him. I checked the site on google earth; (i'm an aussie) and apparently, 6 miles away from the bus there is, or was a bucket and rope, to hall ur ass across the river. Damn! this story has got me fasinated.
valland55 3 years ago 2
Yes, there was. If he would have walked down I think the West of the River, he would have hit a bucket to carry hunters across the river, but he didn't think of it. John Krakauer explains it in his book.
rhcpguitarar 3 years ago
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trust me idiot he was scared shit once he he realized what an asshole he was...freakin moron with no clue you should have went with him
cholulasaucehot 3 years ago
well he did say at the end that happiness is only real when it is shared. but he also did not regret anything he did.
gu88766 3 years ago 6
If Chris were alive today, he would probably have only one thing to say: "Gimme something to fuckin eat!"
shacklefordsystems 3 years ago 2
obviously monkey is too one-dimensional to comprehend my comments.i take issue with the selfish nature of chris's act,not the act itself.all he had to do was call in to his family or drop them a post card or something every once in a while so they knew he was alive.yet in his self-ish act of self-searching, he becomes the personification of everything he detested in society. but this explanation will be waaaay over monkey boy's head,guaranteed. ps. shomakhang, i love the name! *wink wink*
gdss95 3 years ago
becuase chris was so selfish in all he did to help the people he came in contact with right? he was such a selfish person that he allowd those RV peoples relationship fall apart? no i don't believe so... infact he helped them a great deal... the same with the older man he met just before he left for the alaskan wilderness... i'm so one dimensional... thats so hurtful... who cares abotu the society he detested... he was being happy... he didn't do it to make a point to us... he did it for himself
m0nkeymancan 3 years ago 2
dude, it went over your head. gdss was commenting on the collective vs. the individual nature of society. hello mcfly.
shomakhang 3 years ago
please, let's quit glorifying this chris guy already. self, self, self. i'm sooo tired of this "way of being." one CAN transcend oneself without selfishly dropping off the face of the earth and not telling his mom where he is or what he is doing. sean penn, another selfish egotistical moron, understandably would put a guy like chris on a pedestal...cuz all of hollywood glorifies self-adoration, self-aggrandizement, etc.
gdss95 3 years ago
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did your mother abandon you as a child or something?... or are you 47 and still living with her? because it sounds to me like you're obsessing over an inability to let go... are you a mother? did your son/daughter dissapear for five minutes to take a piss without asking?... i'm sorry i guess growing up an making choices isn't allowed now... is it? try dwelling on something more substantial then his mother won't you
m0nkeymancan 3 years ago
that was directed toward gdss95 by the way
m0nkeymancan 3 years ago
dude, it went over your head. gdss was commenting on the collective vs. the individual nature of society. hello mcfly.
shomakhang 3 years ago
i have no problem leaving behind the materialism of this world, but not keeping in touch w/ his mother??? not even a word?? his selfish actions accurately represents the individualism of western society. in other parts of the world, the collective comes before the individual. chris fell victim to the selfish, individual nature of westernism, the very thing he detested. so, indiamikefox or whatever your name is, thoroughly investigate a matter before you make your point. ignorance is bliss, eh?
gdss95 3 years ago
i feel terribly for his mother. mothers give their lives for their kids and then they do crap like this. good job chris. your mom weeps.
gdss95 3 years ago
Terrible for his mom? maybe his mom should of paid more attention to him and took the hint that money and wealth ment nothing to him. No pressure let him live...they didnt so he was a motivated man of his word and did what most of us dream of but are too affraid to accomplish..he left politics, wealth and basicly left the war of society behind to live with the peaceful wild...hey may have made an attempt to come back but god laid him to rest there for areason,us to see the unimportance of wealth
IndiaMikeFoxtrot11 3 years ago
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I was the hippie Chris met on the road. In truth, Chris made a move on my and I said, "No way!" I think he was either lonely or thought I was a woman. Not his fault, though. I would make a pretty good-looking woman. At least that is what my boyfriend tells me.
shacklefordsystems 3 years ago
youre retarted.
peiixx 3 years ago
I dont think anybody should ever vist the bus ever again! theres a reason he was there by himself he never wanted anybody around him so people who visit the bus are not honoring him, i believe he would be really pissed that people make plans to go all the way up there and steal shit from the bus and try to part it on ebay like his boots and part of the mattress thats just really fucked up!
reef2480 3 years ago
Read the book. In the end he relized that to be happy is to share your happiness with someone else. In the end he was finally able to start forgiving he was finally going to go home. He could careless if anyone went to the bus the bus doesnt matter. It was him finding himself. the bus and where hes was has doesnt matter. If you dont get it then i guess your not ment too
wildy6 3 years ago 4
Read the book. In the end he relized that to be happy is to share your happiness with someone else. In the end he was finally able to start forgiving he was finally going to go home. He could careless if anyone went to the bus the bus doesnt matter. It was him finding himself. the bus and where hes was has doesnt matter. If you dont get it then i guess your not ment too
wildy6 3 years ago
That guy was great fuck you cunts who say he was a dumb ass, fuck ''planning and maping'' all you people make me sick you FUCKING consumers they say they run this ''country'' but its us living off the land
erock101 3 years ago
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"fuck ''planning and maping'' all you people make me sick you FUCKING consumers they say they run this ''country'' but its us living off the land "
Whatever, man...having a map and a plan let me go into the darkest wildest places in North America and come back to do it again...nothing "consumer" about being prepared.
trinitymike 3 years ago
People are forgetting that his parents made him hate the superficial world. Or at least that's how they made him feel about the world....the movie showed how he helped each person he accountered along the way...there was a message in it for all of us. And I agree with a comment someone made that there is a lot of anger and negativity here...a common problem with people in the world today.
cass2482 3 years ago 4
the movie doesnt cover half of the story. If you really want to understand what its about read the BOOK.
wildy6 3 years ago 2
After watching the movie, I had already decided to buy the book. I realize there would be much more detail...I look forward to it.
cass2482 3 years ago
mccandless is a champion, hands down! respect
t2cc 3 years ago
why do you all call him an idiot.. he did die an whether or not it was starvation or toxicity of plants he ate atleast he did something.. why not commend the fact that he followed himself rather than others.. death is but a point we all reach.. when he reached it he was ill-prepared that does not make him an idiot that makes him an adventurer.. the earliest adventures couldn't be prepared for everything--they couldn't call ahead an find out what they needed..keep living keep trying RIP CJM
m0nkeymancan 3 years ago 5
What do you do in your day to day life? Obviously not enough to call yourself an adventurer. Life is an adventure, for everyone, in their own way. Don't you think? My ancestors and your ancestors survived on a lot less than he did. No gun, no rubber boots, no magic bus. Yet, you praise him and not your heritage. I see many faults in your character. No movies made about people who survived 50 years in the wild. Families have been raised under less luxuries.
MissMissy1677 3 years ago
faults in my character?did i put down my ancestors?did i put down yours?no but in this day and age most people sit all day an play games all day rather then going out into the world an doing something.i was merely commending his attempt.what was the last adventure you went on?who are you to criticize me?you're clearly a follower if you can't atleast acknowledge the attempt he made to live without luxury.could you live a day without a tv?doubtful.how bout a day without a microwave?again doubtful
m0nkeymancan 3 years ago
faults in my character?did i put down my ancestors?did i put down yours?no but in this day and age most people sit all day an play games all day rather then going out into the world an doing something.i was merely commending his attempt.what was the last adventure you went on?who are you to criticize me?you're clearly a follower if you can't atleast acknowledge the attempt he made to live without luxury.could you live a day without a tv?doubtful.how bout a day without a microwave?again doubtful
m0nkeymancan 3 years ago 2
I'm reading alot of negativity. I don't like to see that. Any kind of negativity towards another person is showing a weakness that they have inside. Is anyone here perfect in every single way. No, probably not. I believe that in the start of Chris's journey it wasn't about survival, it was learning about the creature that we call human. The good and the bad. And in the end we only have the truth he left behind.
para9703 3 years ago 4
in the end the guy was an idiot....he is supposed to be in the middle of nowhere yet hes just in an old bus that hunters used to use...he is in prime hunting territory and he could have escaped but he didnt even know where he was or which way to go that spells...idiot and why did he run out of food in the first place ? one less idiot in the world and thats a good thing
cholulasaucehot 3 years ago
Hell ya!
MissMissy1677 3 years ago
so did he starve to death ?
did he freeze to death ?
or did he drown ?
whick is it ass heads ?
cholulasaucehot 3 years ago
he starved to death, nothing more. if he'd had a map of the area he could have hiked out before he got too weak. he was only 22miles/2 day hike away from the Parks Highway...also, if he'd gone up the river a bit he would have found a hand pully/bucket that he could have used to cross the river. he was in prime moose hunting territory. that's why the bus was there, it was a make shift shelter made by moose hunters.
faerysexy 3 years ago 4
I agree 100%
MissMissy1677 3 years ago
Have some respect.
Chris McCandless R.I.P.
shakercoola 3 years ago
i dont think he wanted to leave.
Garitt2145 3 years ago
cholulasaucehot, simply put, your the biggest idiot probably in the world. Why dont you keep your mouth shut unless you have something intelligent to say. I mean how could you call him a idiot? What are you 8? I bet you still live at home with your mommy and would cry if she didnt hold your hand to cross the street.
youknowwhoiam2 3 years ago
dum ass drowned
cholulasaucehot 3 years ago
He didn't drowned, the only dum ass here it's you
Haller1977 3 years ago
he drowned in his own self-absorbed quest to alienate his family.....i was speaking metaphorically you clown. He was a dum ass not a hero.....ran out of food ...starvin and freezing to death cause of piss poor planning and as a last resort tried to flee in horrible weather conditions ..certain suicide that spells dum-ass in my book he's not a hero who lived life he was a greedy self absorbed idiot who cared only for himself and hurt his family ..yes he drowned not in the river however dum asses
cholulasaucehot 3 years ago