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In April 1992, a young man with a backpack and a copy of War and Peace hitchhiked into the remote wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in Alaska. His name was Christopher McCandless. Four months later, he was found dead inside an abandoned bus, weighing just 67 pounds. His story, immortalized by Jon Krakauer in the book Into the Wild , has since become a cultural Rorschach test: Is he a heroic idealist or a reckless fool? A modern transcendentalist or a tragic victim of arrogance?
He burned for four months. But for those four months, he was not asleep. Into the Wild
They aren't necessarily going to Alaska. They are going to their own version of the wild—a gap year, a sudden resignation letter, a cross-country bike ride. They are chasing that fleeting, terrifying, beautiful feeling of being totally, authentically on their own. In April 1992, a young man with a
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