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Christopher McCandless
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American hiker and explorer (1968–1992)
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Christopher McCandless was an American explorer, diarist, and traveler. Born in El Segundo in 1968, he was educated at Emory University. He wrote in English and used the pseudonym Alexander Supertramp. His works include *Back To The Wild*.
McCandless died on August 18, 1992, at Stampede Trail. The cause of his death was starvation, classified as an accidental death. He left behind the quote, "I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!"
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Back To The Wild
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-03-24
Discography
- All The Mornings Bring1979
- Navigator1981
- Skylight1982
- Marishka1985
- Heresay1988
- Premonition1992
- the natural saxaphone1995
- A Perfect Line1995
- NatureQuest: Sentimental Sax1995
- Torches on the Lake1996
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,607x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,667x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,584x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.”
- “You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only of principaly [sic] from human relation[ships]. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”
- “Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory, but I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know your [sic] a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex.”
- “ATTENTION POSSIBLE VISITORS. S. O.. S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE [double underline]. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS McCANDLESS. AUGUST ?Mary Ellen Barnes (ed.). Back to the Wild (2nd ed.). Twin Star Press, 2013. . (pp. 234-241)”
- “I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
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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- date of birth
- 1968-02-12
- date of death
- 1992-08-18
- Commons category
- Christopher McCandless
- name in native language
- Christopher Johnson McCandless
- manner of death
- accidental death
- pseudonym
- Alexander Supertramp
- writing language
- English language
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christopher McCandless” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.