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Even with a survival manual it's easy enough to get one harmless food source mixed up with another look-alike harmful one. It's widely speculated that this hap
by fjabre 17y ago
Even with a survival manual it's easy enough to get one harmless food source mixed up with another look-alike harmful one.
It's widely speculated that this happened to Chris McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp, who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness back in the 90s to get away from it all but ended up dying from either starvation or eating something poisonous which contributed to his starvation..
I guess the point is get ready to kill some small animals and go fishing. The idea that a couple of "Castor bean seeds" could be fatal is enough for me to consider all plant life poisonous unless I'm 99% positive it's a lemon or an apple or something like that, something well known...
- rdtsc 17y agoWiki page on McCandless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless The speculation is that he died either from eating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedysarum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedysarum or Hedysarum with "Black Patch Desease" fungus : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizoctonia_leguminicola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizoctonia_leguminicola I just watched the movie about him "Into The Wild" -- pretty interesting.
- adrianwaj 17y agoHe died in the Denali National Park: "Wild blueberries and soap berries thrive in this landscape, and provide the bears of Denali with the main part of their diets. Over 450 species of flowering plants fill the park, and can be viewed in bloom throughout summer. Unfortunately, the spring and summer months are short." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali_National_Park_and_Preserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali_National_Park_and_Preser... Edit: his journal was called "Beautiful Blueberries."