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�� �Christopher McCandless hitchhiked
to Alaska in �on a quest for self-discovery. He was inspired by �- Henry David Thoreau and Jack London. On 28th April, he was dropped
off at the beginning of the road known as at the Stampede Trail. The first man
who blazed it across was Earl Pilgrim. He did it in the 1940s. The Stampede
Trail was turned into a �in 1970. The trail's main obstacle is the
crossing of the�Teklanika River.
Chris crossed this river on foot when the water was still low. Snow
and ice on the surrounding mountains had not yet .�He made his way
across and continued to go through the old mining trail. He discovered a .�Workers who built the road had used it as a mobile . McCandless
decided to use it as his own base and he stayed there to prepare himself for moving
deeper into the wild.
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���He arrived there with few books, the ten-pound bag of
rice, a gun and four hundred rounds of . He collected food and examined
the land to check how far he could go into the .�Chris hunted animals
and he even managed to kill a , but its meat spoiled. He soon began to
realize that he might be in over his head. After two months of isolation, he
decided it was time to leave. Unfortunately, when he headed back into the Stampede
Trail he discovered he had waited too . The Teklanika River was now a
raging�. McCandless realized that it was impossible to cross the river.
Having no other choice, he returned to his base.
Over the next few weeks, McCandless started to
starve and he began to lose weight. It is also possible that he had been poisoned
by potato that he ate. As Chris faded away, he wrote down his thoughts
about loneliness, hunger and growing fear about death in a . In one
of his last notes he wrote: “Much trouble just to stand up. Starving. Great .” In his final entry Chris McCandless wrote:
"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God
bless all!"
