![]() So things were going pretty well in July when he - early July when he returned to the bus after trying and failing to cross the river because it was so hot. So - and his photographs show what he was eating. So - and he also took a lot of photographs that were recovered with his body, several rolls of film. He recorded the weather on pieces of birch bark. But he recorded all the food that he killed. KRAKAUER: Well, the journal is very brief and cryptic, so you have to interpret it. And what did it tell you about how he lived and how he died? Jon, welcome to the program.ĬORNISH: So a lot of what people know about Christopher McCandless came from his journal, right? He actually kept writing about his experience. Krakauer joins us now from Boulder, Colorado. ![]() Jon Krakauer had a theory: Unintentional poisoning. It's called "Into the Wild." But one core mystery remained: Was McCandless' journey a slow-motion suicide mission, the results of recklessness or ignorance about the realities of living in the wild? Or was his death an accident? The story of Christopher McCandless and his short, fatal experiment with simple living was exhaustively explored in a 1996 book by Jon Krakauer. Four months later, emaciated and helpless, he died. I'm Audie Cornish.īack in 1992, a young man headed into the Alaskan wilderness seeking a new way of life, perhaps an escape from the modern world. ![]() From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. ![]()
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