So he.ĬORNISH: And this is a bus that was a makeshift shelter that was just out there already.

So things were going pretty well in July when he - early July when he returned to the bus after trying and failing to cross the river because it was so hot.

So - and his photographs show what he was eating. So - and he also took a lot of photographs that were recovered with his body, several rolls of film. He recorded the weather on pieces of birch bark. But he recorded all the food that he killed. KRAKAUER: Well, the journal is very brief and cryptic, so you have to interpret it. And what did it tell you about how he lived and how he died? Jon, welcome to the program.ĬORNISH: So a lot of what people know about Christopher McCandless came from his journal, right? He actually kept writing about his experience. Krakauer joins us now from Boulder, Colorado. Jon Krakauer had a theory: Unintentional poisoning. It's called 'Into the Wild.' But one core mystery remained: Was McCandless' journey a slow-motion suicide mission, the results of recklessness or ignorance about the realities of living in the wild? Or was his death an accident? The story of Christopher McCandless and his short, fatal experiment with simple living was exhaustively explored in a 1996 book by Jon Krakauer. Four months later, emaciated and helpless, he died. I'm Audie Cornish.īack in 1992, a young man headed into the Alaskan wilderness seeking a new way of life, perhaps an escape from the modern world. Michael Groom (Played In Everest By Thomas M.From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Here’s what eight of those survivors are up to today. They’re writers, public speakers, doctors, consultants, and journalists, and they’ll often speak freely about the physical and emotional trial that changed their lives. Others, meanwhile, haven’t drawn away from the association. Many individuals who made it off of the mountain alive either refuse to continue commenting about the events of those days or simply slipped back into private lives. Of the two expeditions that were caught in the blizzard of May 10 and 11, 1996, eight lives were lost. It’s been almost 20 years since the events of the film. 18, they’ll have the opportunity to see what director Baltasar Kormákur and an ensemble that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Keira Knightley, and Josh Brolin have done with their stories when Everest opens in theaters. These climbers and guides - who are all portrayed in the new fictionalized account of the ill-fated venture, Everest - have had to make their own decisions about whether to be vocal about their experience or to move on completely. Survivors of the 1996 Mount Everest climbing disaster are members of a special fraternity.

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