Into the Wild Chapters 10-13 by Mike Bellini

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:25:47 UTC

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.

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:28:12 UTC

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.

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:29:30 UTC

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

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:30:04 UTC

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.”

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:30:30 UTC

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

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:31:25 UTC

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

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:31:54 UTC

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

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:32:28 UTC

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

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:32:50 UTC

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

bellini_mike — 2024-02-23 01:33:12 UTC

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