In April of 1992 a man named Christopher Johnson McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and hiked into the wilderness just north of Mt. McKinley. He gave $25,000 of his savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
There was a man named Christopher Johnson McCandless who had grown up like anyone else and just finished college. After graduatin
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