Christopher McCandless

I think most of us realize that material things don't make a person happy. I was reading a survivalist forum, where people have all these "preps" stored to ride out some horrible catastrophe, and somebody finally said "I wonder how liberating it would be to come home and find everythi...

The Alaska locals are royally pissed about the whole bus tourism thing, in their view Chris was just another moron who wandered into the taiga hoping to challenge nature or something and wildly misjudged nature. Nothing to see here, they say. Most people who went into the taiga had craploads of supp...

Hi, I am 35 and currently live in California. I first bought Into The Wild (the book) when the film came out, and was immediately enthralled. I am Gen X (of course) and we all know the special meaning Chris's story has for us. When I was 19 I defied my parents and moved to downtown San Francisco, so...