Christopher McCandless

Hi Rich, The idea is actually a really good one. They make rafts specifically for backcountry use, designed to be carried in a backpack in addition to other gear called 'packrafts.' They are 5 lbs and can be rolled up to the size of a bread loaf. New Alpacka (brand name) rafts are rather expensive, ...

On the issue of the accuracy of the dates in the book, pardon me for not having my copy handy to check (I mailed it back to AK with some other belongings) but didn't they specifically say something about that matter in the book. If I'm remembering correctly, there is a place where they mention the f...

You make a lot of interesting points here... but one thing you said really seems like a stretch. THIS... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Toyota_Tercel_coupe_.jpg/250px-Toyota_Tercel_coupe_.jpg is a Toyota Tercel. Fourwheelers have difficulty getting across the swampy fields ...

I'm just going on what I was told. I'm not going to try and defend it as I would have no way of knowing for certain. All I will say is that I'm positive my source was un-measurably closer to Chris than any roommate. Perhaps there was some kind of misunderstanding.

I think that's the question I'm most curious about. How could you not invite the input of the person who was closest to him in life, and yet caption every photo with Chris' supposed thoughts and feelings, while simultaneously obscuring the very motives he had to make such a drastic change in his life?

late May/early June seems to be about the earliest you can go without significant snow.

Check out this video by Julien Menier: http://vimeo.com/27588017

He went June 1-4.

So who here's seen these letters from Chris' siblings? http://www.christophermccandless.info/carinemccandless.html http://www.christophermccandless.info/shelly-mccandless.html http://www.christophermccandless.info/stacy-mccandless.html http://www.christophermccandless.info/shawna-mccandless.html If ...

I really liked the Nation Parks Series he did. It was pretty long though, I had to take it in chunks.

Just sent you an email. I'm very curious to learn about the story you're working on.

They're calling it a 'Ken Burns' style video, meaning it's just stills that move. Ken Burns does a lot of stuff with creating parallax and depth of field artificially though. It's really more like a narrated slideshow (of the photos that are in the book.)