INTO THE WILD - CHRIS MCCANDLESS's MAGIC BUS REMOVED

NEW YORK TIMES : INTO THE WILD MAGIC BUS REMOVED 

Chris McCandless, who became famous as a result of a book and then film called INTO THE WILD, died in the bus that he had found as a shelter when he ventured into the Alaska Wilderness. His sister wrote a book about the abuse in their family.  His father had two families and some people felt that in his adventures to find his place in the world the situation had influenced him to break ties and flee. I'm sorry I missed it when it was new news, but a year ago the bus was removed because it had become a pilgrimage site for hikers who followed his story and some of them died or were injured as a result of their own trek into the wild.

I featured this story in the July 2015 edition of Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot. 

You can find these post in my ARCHIVE!

STING - FRAGILE

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I always try to pick music that goes with the Mistress, the time, and the place, for my monthly subject, but as I was thinking strongly of the McCandless Family, this song came on in the store where I was shopping and I think it is a perfect one.  My wish for them all is for healing.  And I think maybe Chris' message for Carine from the spirit world, that he is with her, is manifest, in her daughter.

THE DEBATE OVER WHY CHRIS MC CANDELES DIED RAGES ON

THE NEW YORKER - HOW CHRIS MC CANDLESS DIED 
by Jon Krakauer from September 2013

EXCERPT

"I’ve received thousands of letters from people who admire McCandless for his rejection of conformity and materialism in order to discover what was authentic and what was not, to test himself, to experience the raw throb of life without a safety net. But I’ve also received plenty of mail from people who think he was an idiot who came to grief because he was arrogant, woefully unprepared, mentally unbalanced, and possibly suicidal. Most of these detractors believe my book glorifies a senseless death."

MOOSE

According to the documentary coming up, the Moose that Chris killed would have supplied enough meat for him to survive for months, if he had known how to preserve it quickly before the maggots arrived.  He regretted taking the life and the waste. 

Chris' sleeping bag that he took along with him on his travels had been made by his mom, Billie.  It was judged inadequate by expert survivalists,  Close to death he got into it and zipped it up.

RETURN TO THE WILD DOCUMENTARY about CHRIS MCCANDLESS including BILLIE and WALT

Tests of manhood?  Adventures way bigger than them?  People have to have the opportunity to have adventures and some of them are going to have misadventures - which Chris did?  In this documentary we meet the real people who were portrayed in the film including Billie and Walt and the woman who instantly fell in love with Chris though they only spent three days together and who will never forget him.
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UPDATE AUGUST 2020  The video once attached to this post was discontinued on YOUTUBE.  However there's this news.  The bus has been relocated to a Alaska Museum.

CHRIS WAS A LOVER OF BOOKS