Christopher McCandless

Ok, so I read her book and would like to share my thoughts here. Let me start with 2 general things: 1. Serves them right, all those unnerving Krakauer bashers of the past few years, whether it be other journalists or all those guys claiming they had new theories about how Chris really died, but fin...

Being about to finish Carine's book (in which my first impression regarding the final scene was somehow confirmed) I clearly have to retract my former statement on page 1 of this topic, written a few years ago: And from what I understood, there are indeed some things I don’t like at all about the wa...

Hi gingersue!

You can find the answers to your questions regarding CM's reasons in the new book written by his sister: Carine McCandless: The wild truth
I just hope there's no such things going on in your own family.

Thank you for the link! Really nice to watch and to listen to Carine.
I am currently reading her book and will certainly comment on it once I'm through.

Thanks for sharing!
Looking forward to reading her book.

Hi Bharat! Thanks for the link. I just read your text and just wanted to comment one thing: In the sombre ending of both the movie and his life, Christopher realises and documents that “HAPPINESS [IS] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED”. I suppose you have only seen the movie and not read the book? The problem i...

Difficult to say what kind of plans he had. We only know that he had a destination BEFORE the bus, which was to hike on further west, which he did at first after the first few days at the bus. But then he somehow changed his mind and returned to the bus about 3 weeks later and decided to stay there ...

Unfortunately, there's bad news: Leonard passed away at age 82.

http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/leonard-knight-of-salvation-mountain-fame-dies-at/article_ceb43720-92b2-11e3-9d6f-001a4bcf6878.html

May he rest in peace.

whipper wrote:I can understand why he committed suicide.

So you believe he did? From all we can know, it still doesn't seem that way to me.
But I agree with you for the rest.
Even though Carine's book might be a different story. Maybe rather an attempt to rectify things or so. Well, we'll see.

Now this is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing the link!