Into the Wild

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On September 6, 1992, moose hunters reached an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail, twenty-five miles west of Healy, Alaska, and found a note taped to the door: “S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE.” Inside lay a body weighing sixty-seven pounds. Christopher Johnson McCandless had graduated from Emory with honors in 1990, given the $24,000 left in his college fund to OXFAM, and spent two years crossing North America as Alexander Supertramp. Krakauer retraced that route for more than a year, and what he built is neither a canonization nor a coroner’s verdict.

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Into the Wild