In Wildness: Chris McCandless, Cheryl Strayed, and journeys of discovery.

myeagermind:

A fascinating story

Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:

Twenty-three years ago today, on September 6, 1992, a hunter walking along the Stampede Trail in Alaska came across an abandoned 1940s bus which had been there for a long time. Inside he made a horrifying discovery: the dead emaciated body of a young man who was identified as Christopher McCandless, a/k/a “Alexander Supertramp,” age 24. McCandless had hiked into the Alaskan bush months before as part of a journey of sel...