After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to Oxfam and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

#where he starved to death due to his own incompetence #i feel like that’s relevant

#he died from being an ill-equipped idiot with no planning skills please don’t idolize him #like he refused advice from locals and refused all aid and???? he literally killed himself by being too pretentious

Ash and I had a talk about this guy a while ago and how the movie based on him is inspiring all these kids to go die of exposure in the wilderness. =/