Show Page 12 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday April 29 1996 ONE BIG HAPPY GAZNG UPON DC FIERY fS LOT’S MFC TURNED INTO 1 A PILLAR Mountain climber traces fatal journey into wilderness BUT I GUESS THAT3 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WU DON'T kstxuchonofsoooh 6rrSp DMICRC TCU'REQONQ RW ATTENTION -- That wasn’t how many people saw it when McCandkss’ bodv was found W hat emerged was a It was a story of brash youthful ness turned tragicdeath-wish suicide of with overtones story replete risk taking or just plain stupidity “I think I’m going to disappear for a while the young idealist told his parents during his 1990 graduation weekend from Emory University where he’d been a lop student -- To writer Krakauer the They never spoke to him or saw him alive again Intense and given to extremes McCandless comphotographs that Chris pletely dropped out of sight He gave away nearly — AlexanMcCandless left behind make everything he owned took a new name for short — and left on a jourAlex der Supertramp He was happy thing ney through the West When after two years of tramping McCandkss McCandkss who hiked into the forest in April set off for Alaska he went deliberately 1992 in search of chalknge and adventure was He walked into the wilderness with a bag rifle and a sleeping bag his dead by late August apparently poisoned by wild of rice a small-calibseeds that left him unable to fully metabolize what mother had sewn from a kit Drunk on the fearlessness of youth he took no axe no detailed map and food he had But his pictures show a smiling boy barely a no companions The trip was Krakauer says McCandkss ultiman surrounded by the wild beauty of Alaska His with books and journals are scratched jubilation the mate pilgrimage It was his test of what he would walls of the abandoned bus where he lived are survive “In his moral absolutism a challenge where your scrawled with proclamations of independence ’ He’s terriin the last is assured is no chalknge at alL" he said success too a weakly smiling photo fyingly thin man holding up a farewell note He leaning forward on a sofa in his midtown hotel suite “For it to be even worth considering the risk would be dead within days life in has to be very real" Krakauer who traces McCandkss’ For nearly four months McCandless did survive “Into the Wild" understands that happiness Transfixed by the books and pictures he found an opaque — largely by hunting small game and eating wild reflection of his younger self plants — until the flooded river poison seeds and “This isn’t a guy on some dark bleak journey lo dearth of food combined to kill him save himself" said Krakauer a writer for Outside “He wanted to be out there and feel frightened" magazine and a mountain climber who uses his own Krakauer said “But because Chris was such an experiences lo help probe the forces that drove intense kid he took stuff to extremes and it all went McCandkss “He had his low moments but he’s haywire" out there having a grand old adventure” Twenty yean ago it was Krakauer who was lookKrakauer who delved exhaustively into McCand-les- s ing to feel frightened when he dung by a pair of ice axes to a remote mountain along the Alaska-Canad- a life believes what he found was a modern-da- y border immature called the Devils Thumb into the sometimes wilderness a pilgrim The story of that climb which Krakauer weaves and stubborn pilgrim but a pilgrim into McCandless history is a fasdnating look at nonetheless one man’s reckless attempt to find his answers in an McCandless went into the wild Krakauer writes “to explore the inner country of his own soul" unforgiving wilderness Like McCandless Krakauer was alone and poorly And he insists that the widely held arguments — that McCandkss might just have been a kook a lost prepared for what he was facing Both were furious soul who wandered into the forest — do not stand at their fathen and alternately exhilarated and terrified as they fought to stay alive up Now when Krakauer talks about the lonely trip “He was exuberant and he was odd” said Seattle-base- d writer with a he made to the Devils Thumb he sometimes talks Krakauer a healthy-lookin- g tan and an easy smik “but being about “we" The other person he is referring to is eccentric is not the same as being mentally ill" Chris McCandless hunNEW YORK (AP) — Ik was hollow-eye- d in the Alaskan wilderness marooned and alone gry by a swollen river Slowly the young man from the Washington suburbs was starving to death But to writer Jon Krakauer the books and photographs that Chris McCandless left behind make one thing apparent: He was happy WHOA CATHY SOU QUIT UKARMft SDtfA HEA08AND MTSS SOUR f I WIT 1 - OH ( I OorT uEARiNfr THE HEA- NEAMANO SMS ALL I Vi WTH EM I TOOK jJUST FIMTEOMIME EM A NONTRf NOTICE FOSmON OF THE NEAMANO’ SOU IAO MOWN OUT one apparent TO NOTICE WHEN (T CAME books and X MAS DMMTT WEEK Jon MEmi ABOUT TH0U6MT NOTICE BMC (AST SMM MUST wnc fihaus THE ml ten-pou- nd er BEETLE BAILEY is BOY? THI HAS TO BE THE LONGEST 6AK6S HAS EVER 24-ye- ar CHASEP BEETLE o ° 17 HAQAR THE HORRIBLE Book details young author’s yearning PEANUTS By The Associated Press Excerpts from Jon Knkauer’s book Wild”: “Into The - In coming to Alaska McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country to find a blank spot on the map In 1992 however there were no more blank spots on the map — not in Alaska not anywhere But Chris with his idiosyncratk logic came up with an elegant solution lo this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map mountains But at the age of twenty-thre- e personal mortality — the idea of my own death — was still largely outside my conceptual grasp When I decamped from Boulder for Alaska my head swimming with visions of glory and redemption on the Devils Thumb it didn't occur lo me that I plight ct bound by the same relationships that governed the actions of others Because I wanted to climb the mountain so badly because I had thought about the Thumb so intensely for so long it seemed beyond the realm of possibility that some minor obstacle like the weather or rock might ultimately crevasses or thwart my will cause-and-cffc- rime-cover- I knew that people sometimes died climbing T Names to tin nr MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM Jiim er and two friends along Presley was very polite and later invited her home for chicken-frie- d steak Cybill and Elvis NEW YORK (AP) — Cybill Shepherd has fessed up to her secret affair with Elvis Presley when she was a FOXTROT 1X4 WTAUT Bucks WHAT mold i MS? its ltd Bo Keens out suorcEvanwiMMa HNTHER ISWTBOC HAMMS AND HERE Do I N5VUMN HTIDWMS ITS Not FAIR Sfl" i OH TEAM? 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