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Jim Gallien
The man who picks up Alex at the beginning at the of the book
Where was Chris’s body found & by who?
An abandoned bus by a group of hunters & hikers
What did Chris die from?
Starvation
Wayne Westerberg
A convicted felon who employed Chris & then became his close friend
Jon Krakauer
Author of Into the Wild
Christopher J. McCandless
Young adult born into a middle-class family who left his home to indulge himself into the Alaskan wilderness
What did Chris mostly do once he disappeared?
Hiking, wandering alone in national parks, & random farm work
Jan Burres & her boyfriend Bob
Who Chris lived with after leaving Arizona & went to Slabs, California, after leaving he sent them lots of postcards
Ronald A. Franz
A recovering alcoholic & veteran who looked after Chris, Chris urged him to live a more free-spirited life
Everett Ruess
A young man born into a middle-class family & left his home to explore the desert, most comparable to Chris
Alexander Supertramp
The name Chris gives himself after his disappearance
How did Krakauer write about Chris’s life?
Interviews with people Chris encountered & the journal-snapshot album of his journeys
Gail Borah
Chris’s on-again, off-again girlfriend
Gene Rosellini, John Mallon Waterman, & Carl McCunn
The people Krakauer compares Chris to
Tuesday, April 28, 1992
Chris set off into the Alaskan wilderness
Gordon Samel
Hiker who found Chris dead in his sleeping bag
Denali National Park
Where Chris’s body was found inside of a bus
Carthage, South Dakota
What Chris calls his home & where he sent his mail back to
Annandale, Virginia
Where Chris was raised
Davis Gulch
The route marked as Everett’s last location before his disappearance
Nemo
What Everett carved on canyon walls & in mud, means “nobody” in Latin
Sam McCandless
Chris’s half brother who was called to identify Chris’s body
Carine McCandless Fish
Chris’s younger sister who grew up very close to him, owns a small business with her husband
Billie McCandless
Chris’s mother who Walt had a child with while he was still married
Walter “Walt” McCandless
Chris’s father who was an intelligent engineer who had an affair
Marcia
Walt McCandless’s first wife with whom he had 6 children with & cheated on
Ken Sleight
Spent time investigating Everett Ruess & concluded he drowned
Eric Hathaway
A close friend of Chris’s on the track team
Kris Maxie
A female teammate of Chris’s on the track team, his closest friend in high school
Kai Sandburn
A woman who Krakauer stayed with before climbing the Devil’s Thumb
Gaylord Stuckey
A motor-home delivery man who gave Alex a ride to Fairbanks
John Franklin
A British naval officer who led an expedition into Alaska of many & overall grew responsible for 140 deaths, known as the man who ate his shoes, notable because of his lack to ever learn survival skills
Roman Dial
A doctorate who has been to Alaska many times & went with Krakauer to visit the bus Chris died on
Will Foresberg
Owned cabins near where Chris was staying & believed Chris wrecked them
What was a possible reason for Chris’s death?
Poisoned by potato seeds
August 18th, 1992
Chris’s assumed death date
112
How many days was Chris in the wild for?
Loren Johnson
Billie’s father who is similar to Chris
Emory
The university Chris attended after high school
Fairbanks bus 142
The bus Chris’s body was found on
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