S ean Penn has found the film he had to make.
I have no doubt, if he had a map he would have lived to experience his next great adventure.I’m not destitute. His story is heartbreaking because his life was cut short at a very young age. I've used the example of Chris McCandless during many lectures.
INTO THE WILD HOW TO
I can trace back the majority of search and rescues to no map or not knowing how to read a map. It is the map and knowing where you are at all times on a map is the key to avoiding problems in the wilderness. You don't even have to have a compass most of the time. I can honestly say I've needed matches and my pocket knife on maybe one trip. Unfortunately, he misidentified some and slowly poisoned himself to death. It was because he went back that after several more weeks, the hunting dried up and he relied on eating more plants and nuts. It even turns out the passenger basket was anchored to his side which would have been a fun way to cross for him.īasically, if he had a map he would have quickly realized he had two very good options instead of going back to the place he didn't really want to go. At that location is a one inch thick cable spanning across the river. Since he came prepared to hike a few hundred miles, the distance to the bridge is quite insignificant.Įven worse, if he had a topographical map, it would have showed the USGS gauging station just one half mile down stream. He had to want to get on with the next big adventure but just didn't know that route option was there. The road crosses the same river on a big bridge but well out of his view, a day or two walk away.
INTO THE WILD FULL
Not far upstream to the south were the crowds of Denali National Park and the park shuttle system full of tourists, every day. Alaska has few highways but this is one of them. Just to the east is the George Parks Highway, the main road between Anchorage and Fairbanks. This couldn't be further from the truth.Īlthough he spent months in the location without seeing another person, it is hardly a major wilderness when compared to most of Alaska. He weighed his options as few, he thought he had no options. He would have to wait to get over the river.yet, he was already done with this experience. He was healthy at this point and had already explored much of the valley and even a few mountain tops in the area. So he went back to the old bus he had been living in. Chris thought it was impossible to cross back over the river (which it was at that particular spot).
INTO THE WILD TORRENT
When it was time to go back to civilization, he reached the Teklanika River he crossed a few months before but found a raging torrent with the late spring snowmelt. He found an old abandoned bus and called it home.Īfter a few months in the area surviving off hunting and forging, he had finished his dream of the Alaska experience. But there are no blank spots on the map so "with his idiosyncratic logic, he came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map." Chris hiked around 15 miles up an old road called the Stampede Trail. In the book, Into The Wild, Krakauer says that "McCandless yearned to wander in uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map". No one adventure is so great that you should miss a lifetime of more adventures. It was just one choice he had made that I wish could have been different. I would never criticize someone for living their dreams. If somebody has a dream to go live off the land that is their choice, their life. My intent here is not to criticize the young man who died, although it certainly would be easy.
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