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Chris was a gifted french horn player but quit once his sister Carine followed in his footsteps.

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Chris was an A student but got a C in a science course because he wouldn't follow the lab report guidelines. One of McCandless’s teachers said that he “...Marched to the beat of a different drummer.”

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Chris drove across the country after high school and discovered in CA that his father had continued seeing his first wife even after Chris was born.

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Chris’s maternal grandfather also loved hiking and took Chris on trips when he was a kid.

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Chris used to go to DC slums to hand out McDonald’s hamburgers to homeless people on Friday nights.

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Chris’s father Walt was a successful NASA scientist and was used to being authoritative.

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Chris was a good racquetball player but wouldn’t listen to his father’s coaching.

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Chris was the captain of his cross-country team and often purposely got his team lost on long runs. He encouraged them to find motivation by thinking about all the injustices in the world to

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Chris was such an excellent entrepreneur that a local construction company offered to pay for his college if he stayed and worked there.

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Chris's parents Walt and Billie fought a lot. In Carine McCandless’s 2014 tell-all book, The Wild Truth, she provides details that she wouldn’t allow Krakauer to put in the book: that the parents had enormous alcohol-fueled blowouts and were often abusive to their children.