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In April 1992 a young man from a well to do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given 25,000 dollars in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possession, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was discovered by a moose hunter. No one knows what happened to him, except for the bits and pieces of information left behind in McCandless’s journal found with his body.
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
bmilliman, May 28, 2008
In April 1992 a young man from a well to do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given 25,000 dollars in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possession, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was discovered by a moose hunter. No one knows what happened to him, except for the bits and pieces of information left behind in McCandless’s journal found with his body.(15 of 19 readers found this comment helpful)