I've lost two friends in Alaska, one with a similar story, both with significant outdoors experience and neither was ever found. I myself worked in both territo

I've lost two friends in Alaska, one with a similar story, both with significant outdoors experience and neither was ever found. I myself worked in both territories around the time when McCandless died. Many of us were fascinated by this story because it hit so close to home; that Krakauer continues to examine this definitely hits the empathy and sympathy button, and also the fascination that McCandless was not stupid but had the huevos to do what he did, and sadness with how it ended.