Into the Wild and the Continued Fascination with Christopher McCandless’ Death

Twenty-four hours agoI learned that Carine McCandless is publishing a new book abouther brother Christopher, aka “Alexander Supertramp,” the young man who died in 1992 in Denali National Park after a drifter’s life across the Western United States, the young man who then became the subject of Jon Krakauer’s bestseller Into the Wild. You might say in those twenty-four hours I’ve invitedChris McCandless’story back into my life,and in the process revisited a slewof mixed feelings that developedi...