In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in 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
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I haven't read the book yet, but i know the story, an example of what not to do, unless you want to end up a corpse too.
"Between a Rock and Hard Place" is another book that you can read for examples of overwhelming arrogance and stupidity in facing nature, the only difference being the author was lucky enough to only lose his arm.
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