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. He had given $25,000 in savings to a charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Jon Krakauer brings Chris McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows and illuminates it with meaning in this mesmerizing and heartbreaking tour de force.
* I would give this book a 2.5 out of 5. I realize that this young man wanted to find himself and assert his identity by going off into the wild, I just feel that he should have been a little more aware of the ruggedness and unforgiveness of the Alaskan territory. It was truly suicidal what he did.
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