Into the wild book plot
I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am injured, near death and too weak to hike out of here. The hunters who found his rotting corpse in September also found this note: He tried to smoke the meat, but his moose quickly spoiled.īy late summer, McCandless’s incompetence and overconfidence had caught up with him.
Somehow McCandless grubbed a living from the snows-gathering last year’s rose hips and wizened berries, shooting squirrels, ptarmigans, porcupines and finally, in June, with his puny little. He then entered on what he called, in a manifesto scrawled on a piece of plywood, ‘the climactic battle to kill the false being within.’ Krakauer writes, and took up residence in a rusting Fairbanks city bus that had been fitted out as a crude shelter. It was April, still winter in Alaska.Ĭoming upon the impassable Toklat River, he gave up the idea of walking the 300 miles from Mount McKinley to the Bering Sea, Mr. 22-caliber rifle and walked into the forest, to live off the land or die trying. Alex shouldered his backpack-containing little more than books and rice-and his. His parents had named him Christopher McCandless, but in his travels he preferred the invented identity Alexander Supertramp. That is the starting point of a narrative that seeks to find out why we should care.Īn electrician who had picked him up four miles out of Fairbanks pressed a pair of rubber boots and two sandwiches on the dangerously underequipped but charming hitchhiker, who would vouchsafe no name but Alex. “The strangely fascinating hero of Jon Krakauer’s strangely fascinating book Into the Wild is a young man who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the summer of 1992.