Christopher McCandless
Sign in to saveAmerican hiker and explorer (1968–1992)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968-02-12
- Died
- 1992-08-18
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Back To The Wild
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,483x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,708x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,227x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
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Key facts
- Born
- Christopher Johnson McCandless , ( 1968-02-12 ) February 12, 1968, El Segundo, California , U.S.
- Died
- c. August 1992 (aged 24), Stampede Trail , Alaska , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Starvation
- Body discovered
- September 6, 1992
- Other name
- Alexander Supertramp
- Education
- Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School
- Alma mater
- Emory University ( BA )
- Parents
- Walt McCandless (father) Billie McCandless (mother)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 12 February 1968
- Died
- 18 August 1992
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- El Segundo
- Place of death
- Stampede Trail
- Occupation
- traveler
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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- P1196
- accidental death
Article
Christopher Johnson McCandless (/məˈkændlɪs/; February 12, 1968 – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp", was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up.
After graduating from Emory University in Georgia in 1990, McCandless traveled across North America and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he entered the Alaskan bush with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. On the eastern bank of the Sushana River, McCandless found an abandoned bus, Fairbanks Bus 142, which he used as a makeshift shelter until his death. In September, his body, weighing only 67 pounds (30 kg), was found inside the bus by a hunter. McCandless's cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation, although the exact circumstances relating to his death remain the subject of some debate.