Chris McCandless - a cautionary tale about trail planning and preparation
Chris McCandless - a cautionary tale about trail planning and preparation
He was really dumb. We actually ask our dog handlers when they arrive, what they think about him. He was a reckless idiot.
Why do you/they think so?
He didn’t bother to learn about outdoor survival before he left. He arrived in Alaska with little food and equipment. He was offered free food and equipment to take with him by the driver who took him to the trail but he refused.
He didn’t take a map. He was 800m from being able to get back across the river and towards civilisation but instead returned to the bus to die.
His death was avoidable and selfish and the romanticising of his death glorifies being an idiot and taking entirely unnecessary risks.
Starving to death because he decided to go wander into the wilderness with insufficient experience or planning seems like pretty reasonable grounds for the position
If they think he was awesome, they usually end up being weird irresponsible people.
Wow, what an idiot. Not for trying to live a nomadic lifestyle, but for trying to survive the Alaskan bush without so much as a map..,
I remember getting high and watching the film, not the documentary, about him. I was initially rooting for him, but halfway through I was getting angry. I just kept thinking "WTF is wrong with you? You need help at every turn and then just keep turning everyone away." I finished the movie and figured he was depressed and suicidal, but I still didn't like him as a character.