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In doing so, it attempts to discover why those individuals - and, by extension, McCandless himself - thought they could live a simple life in a harsh landscape. This chapter offers examples of three others besides Christopher McCandless (Gene Rosselini, John Waterman, and Carl McCunn) who traveled to Alaska to live off the land and failed, most of them miserably. Other mail simply questioned his judgment: "Entering the wilderness purposefully ill-prepared, and surviving a near-death experience does not make you a better human, it makes you damn lucky," wrote one reader.Īnother reader asked, "Why would anyone intending to 'live off the land for a few months' forget Boy Scout rule number one: Be Prepared?" After Jon Krakauer's article on McCandless appeared in Outside magazine, the author received many letters suggesting that the young man had been mentally ill.
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