• published an article about McCandless in that month's issue of Outside magazine. Inspired by the details of McCandless's story, Krakauer wrote the biographical...
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  • Ezra McCandless' car in Spring Brook, Wisconsin. McCandless was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2020 for the murder. On March 22, 2018, McCandless turned...
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  • Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue...
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  • April 1992, Chris McCandless arrives in a remote area called Healy, just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Noting McCandless' unpreparedness...
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  • details the odyssey of Christopher McCandless as Lamothe takes a road trip across North America to the places McCandless visited. Within the film, Lamothe...
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  • baseball player Chris McCaleb (born 1978), American film editor, director and producer Chris McCandless (1968–1992), American hiker Chris McDaniel (born 1971)...
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  • McCandless (/mɪkˈkænd.ləs/, mik-CAND-ləs) is a Gaelic surname, both Irish (Ulster) and occasionally Scottish. It is the Anglicized form of the Middle Irish...
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  • Vague Direction. Archived from the original on February 19, 2020. "The Chris McCandless Story". Travel Channel. Archived from the original on 2018-07-12. Retrieved...
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    biographical drama Into the Wild (2007), in which she portrayed the sister of Chris McCandless. In 2007 it was announced that Malone was releasing her first single...
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  • the death of Christopher McCandless". "How Chris McCandless Died". The New Yorker. September 12, 2013. "How Chris McCandless Died: An Update". The New...
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    as its film adaptation), a copy of Family Happiness was found among Chris McCandless' remains, with several passages highlighted. The last page of the story...
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  • "Chris McCandless" Blair Braverman February 27, 2023 (2023-02-27) Author, musher, and friend of the show Blair Braverman returns to discuss Chris McCandless's...
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    American film directed by Sean Penn, features a very brief scene showing Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) floating nude in a river. 2008 – Watercolors, an American...
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  • aired as a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning on February 21, 2021. Chris McCandless List of solved missing person cases "Happy Birthday!!". St. Martinville...
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    on 2013-08-23. Retrieved 2013-01-24. Jon Krakauer How Chris McCandless Died "How Chris McCandless Died: An Update". The New Yorker. Grizzly Bear Food and...
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  • from the original on November 10, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2022. "Chris McCandless' Journey on Tripline". tripline.net. Archived from the original on...
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  • New York. It is unknown whether she died by suicide or was murdered. Chris McCandless (24), American hiker who after going hiking in Alaska in 1992 was found...
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    Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer mentions Salton City as a place where Chris McCandless stopped in his travels. J. A. Jance's novel Trial by Fire is partly...
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  • Into the Wild (book) (1996), non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer about Chris McCandless Into the Wild (film) (2007), directed by Sean Penn, based on the non-fiction...
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    February 2015). "How Chris McCandless Died: An Update". The New Yorker Blog: Page-Turner. "Krakauer's wild theory on McCandless gives short shrift to...
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    Martinson, Erica. Alaska Dispatch News, 30 August 2015 "The Cult of Chris McCandless". Men's Journal. September 2007. Archived from the original on November...
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  • Oklahoma Press. p. 486. ISBN 0-8061-3576-X. Saverin, Diana (December 18, 2013). "The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem". Outside. Retrieved July 27, 2019....
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  • based on him. Mentioned in the 1996 novel Into the Wild as one of Chris McCandless' inspirations, before his trek into the Alaskan interior. The Nautilus...
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  • Autobiography of Supertramp, a direct reference to the book.[citation needed] Chris McCandless renamed himself "Alexander Supertramp" when he began his journey in...
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  • his memoir A Sand County Almanac. The dam is noted as the location Chris McCandless crossed into Mexico by kayak. Republic, Brandon Loomis The Arizona...
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    vocalist for the hardcore band MyChildren MyBride Chris McCandless of Into the Wild fame; spent two months as a McDonald's employee in Bullhead City Ella Mae...
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    Street Ryan Gosling Lars Lindstrom Lars and the Real Girl Emile Hirsch Chris McCandless Into the Wild Viggo Mortensen Nikolai Luzhin Eastern Promises 2008...
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