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Chris McCandless was born in Torrance, California.

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Krakauer climbed the Devils Thumb in Alaska. The trip took longer then expected because of the weather and it was very dangerous.

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The last known moment of Waterman place on Ruth Glacier, when he was said to be way less cautious on this trip than any other ones he has been on. Waterman was kind of going crazy by this point but like McCandless he was a guy who never walked out of the Alaskan wilderness.

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Chris saved up enough money to buy his iconic secondhand yellow Datsun B210.

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Chris left for his first adventure traveling the whole summer before collage to the Pacific coast all by himself.

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Chris visited El Segundo where he visited old family friends. that’s when he found out his dad had a kid with his ex-wife while married to Billie, which mad Chris have a growing hatred for him.

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Chris took another road trip the summer before his senior year of college. He drove all the to Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Chris graduated from Emory University with about 24,000 dollars remaining in his collage fund, a couple of weeks later he would donate every last penny of it to OXFAM charity. He then would pack up his car and vanish from his families life's forever.

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Chris sent a letter to his family with them, not knowing that would be the last time they would ever hear from him.

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Chris got rid of his belongings, abandoned his car, and burned the last of his money and set forth around Lake Mead, Atlanta.

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Jan Burres and Bob pulled over to help out Chris, and actually ended up becoming very close with him because for the next two years Chris would send them postcards, and letter ever 1–2 months.

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Chris got a ticket for hitchhiking and his parents received it, and they were so scared that they hired a privet investigator, which ended up coming with nothing about Chris's where bouts.

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Westerberg picked up a hitchhiker in Montana, who ended up being Chris but going by Alex. Westerberg then ended up giving Chris (Alex) a job at one of his grain elevators a couple weeks later.

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Chris McCandless left Carthage after Westerberg got arrested so therefor there was no work for him, so no reason to stay there.

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Chris had been exploring all of Arizona for the past month, when he decided to send a letter to Westerberg, where he was doing time to thank him for everything and hopes to see him again in the future to thank him some more.

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Chris is currently in Mexico in the canals when he gets lost looking for an outlet to the sea, and in desperate need he comes across duck hunters took him to the golf of California where he is finally where he wants to be.

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Chris abandoned his boat and is now decided to head up North after a rough journey in the sea, he hasen't spoke to anyone in 36 days.

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Chris makes it all the way to Las Vegas, and while on the road he ended up losing about 30 pounds, but now has a job at an Italian Restaurant for only about 30 days, leaving on May 10.

He does not make another journal entry till January 7, 1992

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After leaving Las Vegas in May 1991, he ended up in Bullhead City, Arizona he stayed there for about two months getting a full-time job at McDonald’s, and even opening a savings account in town.

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Chris left Bullhead city saying he was "tired of plastic people" and he visited his Jan and Bob at the slabs in Niland.

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Chris meets Franz, and Franz offers him a ride back to Chris's camp, which he accepts.

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Franz drops Chris off in San Diego after spending about four weeks with him, teaching each other different skills

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The day, Chris called Franz to pick him up in Coachella, California, after being in jail a couple of days for train hoping. The next day, Chris McCandless would leave Franz again to go work at the grain elevator.

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The last day Franz will ever see McCandless. He dropped him off right outside Grand Junction.

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McCandless sent Franz a huge letter trying to convince him to lice off the grid. To pack up his things and live in the wild for the short amount of life that he has left.

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Chris left for Alaska as everyone who worked at the grain elevator waited to send him off on his adventure.

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Chris met Gaylord Stuckey while in a hot spring in Liard River after two days of trying to find a ride to Fairbanks. After talking for awhile Stuckey said yes to taking Chris to Fairbanks.

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Chris sent a letter to both Westerberg and Jan Burres. Chris had told them he had made it to Fairbanks, Alaska and this is the last they will hear of him for a couple of months.

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The day Jim Gallien picked up Chris on George Parks Highway, and from there would take him to the Stampede trail being the last to see Chris alive.

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The day Chris McCandless founded the bus and made it his permanent shelter while staying in the wilderness.

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Chris McCandless inscribed Alexander Supertramp/May 1992, onto bus 142.

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Chris decided the Bus 142 would be a long term thing and he would stay there all summer. He even wrote chores he would do in the bus.

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Chris ended up shooting a moose and cutting it up. He stored it wrong so it did end up rotting and he couldn’t eat it.

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Chris was ready to leave Alaska after two months. He attempted to cross the Teklanika river but then failed so he turned around and went back to the bus.

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Billie had the dream of Chris screaming, “Mom! help me!” Then she woke up in a flash worried for her son.

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Thompson, Samel, and Swanson were headed up to the bus in the wood. There they find the body of Chris McCandless, who has been dead for two and a half weeks.

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This was the day troopers came to the bus on their helicopter and took back Chris's remains and everything he had with him back to town.

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A story was published on Anchorage Daily News about Chris, or some would say Alex, and his death.

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New had spread about the dead hiker in Alaska. One of Westerberg's employees called him, telling him to listen in because it sounded like Alex. Westerberg ended up calling Alaskan state troopers and gave them Chris's name and his social security number.

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Sam, Walt's oldest son, received a call and went to the police department to identify Chris's picture. Right away, he drove to Maryland to tell his father and Billie.

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The day Carine found out that Chris had died when he was in Alaska. She cried for five hours then went to the church then her parents house.

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Walt McCandless and Billie McCandless participate in an interview with Krakauer.

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Franz picked up two hitchhikers and told them about his friend

Alex's adventure in Alaska. They told Franz about how he had died up in Alaska.

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Ronald Franz sent a letter to a writer asking for the magazine that talked about Chris's death in Alaska. Franz was claiming to know him and to be of pretty close with him.

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This is when Jon Krakauer wrote his Author's Note.