well here's another part from Ron Lamothes brilliant documentary "The call of the Wild", it will tell you more about Chris than the book and movie combined. check out www.tifilms.com
He went and did what he wanted not caring what anyone thought about him . How many of us can say that ? Not many , because we are so afraid of what we really want in life. Many of us wont ever go find our true happiness but yet some of you call him stupid ? maybe you who are calling him dumb are the dumb ones for not understanding .
Get a grip on reality. He s dead cause yes he was stupid just like you doing what he wanted to do without any know how. So yes that IS stupid. fucken dreamers....
Young stupid and so idealistic you're not dealing with the reality of the situation...really...that's what made him so special? That he died because of the way he choose to live? You think he found his "true happiness"....LOL...he found extreme isolation and profound loneliness and a way too early death...so wax on poetic if you like...but you're really a fool! Go live unprepared in a frozen wilderness...see how "happy" starving to death makes you!
@@brandiejones5752 - he's not a hero. He didn't go to Alaska to die...he went to survive, but failed. What legacy is left? I feel for the lad...had he been prepared he'd still be enjoying the life he longed for. Sad.
The Mccandless family were upper middle class, but Walt had so many other kids besides Chris and Corinne. I'm sure support of those children costed quite a bit.
Before you judge and hate on Chris, actually read the book, "Into The Wild." Study his life, read about him, watch interviews and more importantly try to relate to him! Chris is defiantly not the average person, but I sure as help don't expect him to be. You have to realize the idea of what he was trying to put out there. He had a beautiful soul. One of a kind. No matter how crazy he was I respect him and what he put on there for us to learn by. "Money's just paper, but it affects people like poetry."
Uh. Or not. Chris was not some hero, or "different" person. He say screw life, and hiked to Alaska, along the way burglarizing cabins. Plus, the author of that book got Chris' death wrong. Chris was ignorant, it is as simple as that.
Chris seemed to share this rare personality type with people like Everett Ruess where rambling freedom and natural beauty produces a happiness or even an addictive high. The danger level increases with confidence every time they succeed in a quest. Today they might just get that high from playing video games which a lot of people use to produce the same kind of high.
Last guy is kinda douchish to me. The guy is dead. I mean say what you will, he gave away $24,000 and had the guts to follow his dream. Neither of which, most people will ever have the heart to do even if they could.
I feel like there should be some sort of test on a mixture of emotion and intelligence before people are allowed to comment on videos like this; some of these comments are totally disrespectful and improperly thought out. If you don't think Chris was deserving of the recognition he's received then tell us why, don't just hate on the man.
And I think it is idiots like you who think the freedom of speech needs to be controlled somehow should be locked in a prison and tossed away because he doesn't understand FREEDOM
For whatever reason, Chris wasn't happy. Apparently he was actually very shy and used drinking as a tool to help him cope. It is interesting that he would leave and go into the wild, but all the people who met him apparently liked him. Whatever the ghosts were which drove him, I think he has nothing to apologize for and should have realized that we the people who knew him and the people who have come to know him, including myself, like him and would revel in his friendship.
There's almost a romantic, poetic element to Chris's story. But the last guy speaking didn't play into that at all. I get the feeling they weren't close friends so to speak.
Sometimes you think you know someone because of a story, a movie, a book etc...And actually you don't know that person until you spend a large amount of time with that person. The way you think of them when though you knew them will different when you let them go after you actually spend that large amount of time with them.
And another thing... if this director was friends with Chris’s roommate... why did he only have time to talk with him on his lunch break? Can you say “bullshit?”... and he takes a bus to go see him. “Hey I’m doing a documentary on Chris...can I talk to you?” “ I’ll give you 30 minutes on my lunch break.” Yeah that’s a real friendship.
I'm sorry, but I feel this video was only made to tarnish a dead man's reputation. Your old roommate that was supposedly Chris's roommate as well. If that story was true, he should have kept it to himself. Did you both feel better, and go walk on water! Sorry, but this is just morally wrong
A young Christopher McCandless reminds me of a young Maynard James Keenan. Similar size, wiry build, dark hair, dark, intense eyes, and even ran cross country.
I can't believe that there're people come here to say such dirty words to a man passed away. You'd better find your own way to humanization before barking out loud like that.
Christopher also went to Lithonia High School here in Lithonia Georgia cuz he was telling people you know that he was going to take this trip and I'll come outside end of the school year going to summer and they was at they're discussing about Christopher talking about you don't want people to go with him on that trip to Alaska and I would listen to the guy but I didn't know who they was talkin about then they pull out of your book and they show me the picture of him and then I saw the movie and I said wow this is something else rest in peace Christopher
Well looks like a hit job documentary on Chris. His roommate didn’t like him, so he brings up the freshman dorm room drunk story that we all saw many of times in college... small nerdy guy drunk, for probably the first time, harmless, but annoying, and they eventually pass out... and we forget about it.
Young people often do foolish and reckless things, most of the time they survive and it's forgotten about. If he had managed to get out alive, he would have got on with the rest of his life and we would never had heard of him. Because he died, people think there is some massive story to investigate. He was just young and did something daft, unluckily for him he didn't get away with it. That's all there is to it.
Your criticizing him as if he was intending on going on a hunting trip. From what I understood from the story was that the culmination of his life to that point was something he was unhappy with, there was something that seemed drastically wrong with his life that he wanted to fix, and to do so he sought out complete solitude. Now obviously he wasn't very prepared but I don't think preparation is the first thing on some who is that stressed out's mind
Cool video!!!! I live in the area, and would love to go by his childhood home. I know it's in Annandale, VA, but not exactly where. Could you send me the address please? Thanks!!!!
I don't know about the house being stately. Looks pretty nice but then I grew up living in a home with only 2 rooms and a small bathroom. Looks pretty middle class to me.
Aly C Sounds like what me and my siblings lived in. My dad slept in the couch and my oldest sister had her own room while me, my brother, and my all slept in the master bedroom with my mom. Bunk beds for me and my brother and my sister slept by mom. Always made me wonder why my mom and dad had more kids than they had capacity for.
+gohstdog23 Just goes to show Chris was a quiet, humble, uneventful kind of guy. We only really remember the eventful things about people. This was just the one thing that stood out as something to remember.
"In fact, I was once Fred's room mate too, for a summer down in Cape Cod after sophmore year." So, my parents sent me to college and then I spent my summers down on the beach........ So tell me again, how you are different from Chris?
My thoughts on it is that he should have let folks know where he was and what he was up too. Maybe that could have save his life. I know in the movie there was issues with home and parents.
THIS IS NOT THE HOUSE WHERE CHRIS GREW UP!!! Shame on you for saying so! Get your facts straight! I grew up five houses away from Chris, and I was a childhood friend of his.
+barry8844 I think it is. There are many houses on his street that look similar - similar design. I saw this one. I forget the exact name of the road he lived on, but it is off of rt. 236 and then left off Guinea Rd between Annandale and Fairfax City. It's relatively old middle class neighborhood. His dad made good money but he was paying a lot of child support t his other family in CA so that explains why they didn't live in a bigger house.
+Mark Phelps I'm telling you for a fact that it is not the house that Chris lived in. The street name is Willet Drive located in Annandale (near Guinea Road). The house he lived in was a split foyer type. I grew up five houses away from him, and we were good friends in elementary school. I even drove by our old houses a couple of weeks ago because I was in the neighborhood.
Well tusker, you have the advantage of someone telling you that after the fact. Chris risked it all, and all you can do is criticize. I think Chris will probably urinate on your grave, in a mystical sense of the word.
dyslexicjim Oh grow up!! It was an observation!! Don't you ever question or just believe what you are told?;) I've done crazy things too in the name of adventure but always had a way out!! not just sat there and starve!!
tusker78 he wanted to be left alone to conform to his own wellbeing till death now there's such a big story about him his dreams of being off grid forgotten but happy are gone
I can't see what u mean but I dunno why people are so interested in knowing someone who died doing what he had always thought to do. I mean, why people are so curious...if Christopher hadn't died many of you would never have talked about him. What do you know about him? It seems that any of you knew him or had met him once in ur life-time. Why don't you think about you, why are you so interested in knowing someone that with many possibilities was like you...
i dont understand him.. what did he achieve by this? if there were no animals around and he was hungry and yes, he wanted to remain in the wild, then why not actually do some farming or something? or go back to the city and bring some supplies.. why do u have to die?
Because he was mentally ill , no one is saying it because they want to romanticize him , he needed help and no one gave it to him , he was unequipped to survive in the wild, he had no training no bush craft skills at all ,, what do you expect when you don't know what your doing you die!, its just that clear.
Chris McCandless was a troubled young man who tried to live off the land in the wilds of Alaska and starved to death. He went into the bush without bothering to master necessary skills. He didn’t have a map, wore jeans (a real sign of a newbie), and carried 10 lbs of rice but no crampons. McCandless had no respect for wilderness, too much arrogance, or maybe he just wasn’t thinking. He was not a kid or a boy; he was a 24 year old man. If Chris had a map, he would have seen that the safe way out, the best way to cross the river was only a half-mile down where there was a gauging station built by the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s how Jon Krakauer, the author of “Into the Wild,” and his companions reached the bus. Chris wanted to go into Alaska as terra incognito but there was a bus there and cabins a few miles away. How incognito could it be? In a documentary about the movie, Krackauer explained McCandless’ thinking: “If the whole world is mapped, then don’t look at the map.” That’s suicidal.
There was probably a lot of snow around to pack the moose meat in,to keep it frozen. He was so nieve and inexperienced about survivalist living. So sad really.
really!!! I did my share of mushrooms, acid, crank, cocaine and pot........ When I was younger, had a shitty childhood and up bringing...... Got pregnant at 16, didn't finish high school married my high school sweetheart plus 2 more kids later,,,, I now own my own home and make almost $50,000 a year,,,,,,, My children and I are best friends and not only are we best friends, they are very well educated children, and make a lot money for themselves.... and they are very well rounded kids
He went and did what he wanted not caring what anyone thought about him . How many of us can say that ? Not many , because we are so afraid of what we really want in life. Many of us wont ever go find our true happiness but yet some of you call him stupid ? maybe you who are calling him dumb are the dumb ones for not understanding .
That's the point, and he made that point. His laugh had purpose, a leader.
Get a grip on reality. He s dead cause yes he was stupid just like you doing what he wanted to do without any know how. So yes that IS stupid. fucken dreamers....
Young stupid and so idealistic you're not dealing with the reality of the situation...really...that's what made him so special? That he died because of the way he choose to live? You think he found his "true happiness"....LOL...he found extreme isolation and profound loneliness and a way too early death...so wax on poetic if you like...but you're really a fool! Go live unprepared in a frozen wilderness...see how "happy" starving to death makes you!
The New Natives So you're just waiting for Armageddon ?
ihategoogle truth.
Chris is a hero for me... The real human being
A hero for all of us :) from england Lboro
To be honest I don’t understand why everyone says he’s a hero what did he do special?
@@brandiejones5752 - he's not a hero. He didn't go to Alaska to die...he went to survive, but failed. What legacy is left? I feel for the lad...had he been prepared he'd still be enjoying the life he longed for. Sad.
@@tuxjunkie True. I feel that the reason he’s spoken as a hero is that he dared to do something that most people are scared to even start.
The Mccandless family were upper middle class, but Walt had so many other kids besides Chris and Corinne. I'm sure support of those children costed quite a bit.
By watching this movie I come to a point that happiness comes from loosing the desires
at least he knew what he want and went for it , chris is from the greatest men thank you rest in peace .
Before you judge and hate on Chris, actually read the book, "Into The Wild." Study his life, read about him, watch interviews and more importantly try to relate to him! Chris is defiantly not the average person, but I sure as help don't expect him to be. You have to realize the idea of what he was trying to put out there. He had a beautiful soul. One of a kind. No matter how crazy he was I respect him and what he put on there for us to learn by. "Money's just paper, but it affects people like poetry."
he was young and stupid ! thats it! and he die because he was stupid !
***** Says the dolt who can't write a proper sentence. Chris was TOO smart for this world, but you would never be able to comprehend that concept.
Uh. Or not. Chris was not some hero, or "different" person. He say screw life, and hiked to Alaska, along the way burglarizing cabins. Plus, the author of that book got Chris' death wrong. Chris was ignorant, it is as simple as that.
RandomGT5 What is your proof that the author got Chris' death wrong? He lived more than most people ever will in two years of his life.
Qlimex what's a "qlimex" ? sounds like a chemical that accidently mated with a lab rat !
Chris seemed to share this rare personality type with people like Everett Ruess where rambling freedom and natural beauty produces a happiness or even an addictive high. The danger level increases with confidence every time they succeed in a quest. Today they might just get that high from playing video games which a lot of people use to produce the same kind of high.
Kris lived a free man and died a free man God bless all who want to live like he did and follow his foot steps be safe and good luck to you.
INTO THE WILD!!!! THANK YOU CHRIS.
Last guy is kinda douchish to me. The guy is dead. I mean say what you will, he gave away $24,000 and had the guts to follow his dream. Neither of which, most people will ever have the heart to do even if they could.
I feel like there should be some sort of test on a mixture of emotion and intelligence before people are allowed to comment on videos like this; some of these comments are totally disrespectful and improperly thought out. If you don't think Chris was deserving of the recognition he's received then tell us why, don't just hate on the man.
And I think it is idiots like you who think the freedom of speech needs to be controlled somehow should be locked in a prison and tossed away because he doesn't understand FREEDOM
And then some people are just dicks
Shut the fuck up. We'll say whatever we please!
For whatever reason, Chris wasn't happy. Apparently he was actually very shy and used drinking as a tool to help him cope. It is interesting that he would leave and go into the wild, but all the people who met him apparently liked him. Whatever the ghosts were which drove him, I think he has nothing to apologize for and should have realized that we the people who knew him and the people who have come to know him, including myself, like him and would revel in his friendship.
There's almost a romantic, poetic element to Chris's story. But the last guy speaking didn't play into that at all. I get the feeling they weren't close friends so to speak.
Sometimes you think you know someone because of a story, a movie, a book etc...And actually you don't know that person until you spend a large amount of time with that person. The way you think of them when though you knew them will different when you let them go after you actually spend that large amount of time with them.
Ironic since his sister did not know him at all cause if she did she would have saw it coming
You can tell how much he wanted to go on that journey years before he did.
And another thing... if this director was friends with Chris’s roommate... why did he only have time to talk with him on his lunch break? Can you say “bullshit?”... and he takes a bus to go see him. “Hey I’m doing a documentary on Chris...can I talk to you?” “ I’ll give you 30 minutes on my lunch break.” Yeah that’s a real friendship.
I'm sorry, but I feel this video was only made to tarnish a dead man's reputation. Your old roommate that was supposedly Chris's roommate as well. If that story was true, he should have kept it to himself. Did you both feel better, and go walk on water!
Sorry, but this is just morally wrong
Chris Mcandless ! Um exemplo de coragem...Thank Chris.
A young Christopher McCandless reminds me of a young Maynard James Keenan. Similar size, wiry build, dark hair, dark, intense eyes, and even ran cross country.
You people don't know what he've been through in that journey don't judge dead person he's not alive to speaks for himselfe tell you why he died
I can't believe that there're people come here to say such dirty words to a man passed away. You'd better find your own way to humanization before barking out loud like that.
What about honest opinions about his mental stability????
Christopher also went to Lithonia High School here in Lithonia Georgia cuz he was telling people you know that he was going to take this trip and I'll come outside end of the school year going to summer and they was at they're discussing about Christopher talking about you don't want people to go with him on that trip to Alaska and I would listen to the guy but I didn't know who they was talkin about then they pull out of your book and they show me the picture of him and then I saw the movie and I said wow this is something else rest in peace Christopher
Well looks like a hit job documentary on Chris. His roommate didn’t like him, so he brings up the freshman dorm room drunk story that we all saw many of times in college... small nerdy guy drunk, for probably the first time, harmless, but annoying, and they eventually pass out... and we forget about it.
Had been years for your videos . I hope you are fine ❤️
Young people often do foolish and reckless things, most of the time they survive and it's forgotten about. If he had managed to get out alive, he would have got on with the rest of his life and we would never had heard of him. Because he died, people think there is some massive story to investigate. He was just young and did something daft, unluckily for him he didn't get away with it. That's all there is to it.
Your criticizing him as if he was intending on going on a hunting trip. From what I understood from the story was that the culmination of his life to that point was something he was unhappy with, there was something that seemed drastically wrong with his life that he wanted to fix, and to do so he sought out complete solitude. Now obviously he wasn't very prepared but I don't think preparation is the first thing on some who is that stressed out's mind
Cool video!!!! I live in the area, and would love to go by his childhood home. I know it's in Annandale, VA, but not exactly where. Could you send me the address please? Thanks!!!!
And if you read his story than obviously you know he was actually very intelligent when he was thinking straight.
LOL.....
I don't know about the house being stately. Looks pretty nice but then I grew up living in a home with only 2 rooms and a small bathroom. Looks pretty middle class to me.
Aly C Sounds like what me and my siblings lived in. My dad slept in the couch and my oldest sister had her own room while me, my brother, and my all slept in the master bedroom with my mom. Bunk beds for me and my brother and my sister slept by mom. Always made me wonder why my mom and dad had more kids than they had capacity for.
Fred sounds like he has a little "envy" there , so he remembers nothing good about Chris . lol
+gohstdog23 Just goes to show Chris was a quiet, humble, uneventful kind of guy. We only really remember the eventful things about people. This was just the one thing that stood out as something to remember.
if people cant comment nice things then don't comment at all
So Poco - you get to make rules now too?
wth?
no I wasn't making rules at all. all I was saying was if you cant be nice and comment something positive then don't comment at all
people don't even comprehend what you write on youtube. People are dumber than they used to be for sure. Society in decline.
222Lightning Or maybe people's stupidities are more exposed because we have access to see everyone's anonymous ideas on the Internet? Just a thought
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"In fact, I was once Fred's room mate too, for a summer down in Cape Cod after sophmore year." So, my parents sent me to college and then I spent my summers down on the beach........ So tell me again, how you are different from Chris?
How is that not a nice house?
My thoughts on it is that he should have let folks know where he was and what he was up too. Maybe that could have save his life. I know in the movie there was issues with home and parents.
THIS IS NOT THE HOUSE WHERE CHRIS GREW UP!!! Shame on you for saying so! Get your facts straight! I grew up five houses away from Chris, and I was a childhood friend of his.
+barry8844
I think it is. There are many houses on his street that look similar - similar design. I saw this one. I forget the exact name of the road he lived on, but it is off of rt. 236 and then left off Guinea Rd between Annandale and Fairfax City. It's relatively old middle class neighborhood. His dad made good money but he was paying a lot of child support t his other family in CA so that explains why they didn't live in a bigger house.
+Mark Phelps
I'm telling you for a fact that it is not the house that Chris lived in. The street name is Willet Drive located in Annandale (near Guinea Road). The house he lived in was a split foyer type. I grew up five houses away from him, and we were good friends in elementary school. I even drove by our old houses a couple of weeks ago because I was in the neighborhood.
I am sure you are right.
do you have the address so I can check it out sometime. mephelps41@gmail if you don't want to list the address.
@@phelpsmarc 4608 Willet Drive.
@@phelpsmarc No Mark. He lived at 4608 Willet Drive, not the house in the video.
I go further off by myself too.
lm not that extreme yet.
What I don't understand is that there was a bridge over the river only 500 meters away...all that time he spent there he did'nt venture! weird!!
Well tusker, you have the advantage of someone telling you that after the fact. Chris risked it all, and all you can do is criticize. I think Chris will probably urinate on your grave, in a mystical sense of the word.
dyslexicjim Oh grow up!! It was an observation!! Don't you ever question or just believe what you are told?;) I've done crazy things too in the name of adventure but always had a way out!! not just sat there and starve!!
Milica Djordjevic How do you think the bus got there;)?
Nick Tusker It took you 5 months to reply!! Were you on a Greyhound bus;))
tusker78 he wanted to be left alone to conform to his own wellbeing till death now there's such a big story about him his dreams of being off grid forgotten but happy are gone
Wow - how can you hate someone who's DEAD?????
Of course you can hate dead people. What a dumb comment lol. There's many people who should be hated that are dead. Pedophiles, rapists murderers ect.
I can't see what u mean but I dunno why people are so interested in knowing someone who died doing what he had always thought to do. I mean, why people are so curious...if Christopher hadn't died many of you would never have talked about him. What do you know about him? It seems that any of you knew him or had met him once in ur life-time. Why don't you think about you, why are you so interested in knowing someone that with many possibilities was like you...
The "Supertramp" moniker somehow dosen't fit into the man here somehow...
i dont understand him.. what did he achieve by this? if there were no animals around and he was hungry and yes, he wanted to remain in the wild, then why not actually do some farming or something? or go back to the city and bring some supplies.. why do u have to die?
Because he was mentally ill , no one is saying it because they want to romanticize him , he needed help and no one gave it to him , he was unequipped to survive in the wild, he had no training no bush craft skills at all ,, what do you expect when you don't know what your doing you die!, its just that clear.
So why waiting... lets move to alaska....
where can I find the full doc??
can you werite what his friend said? I cant understand
McCandless was a human paraquat
Alaska Alaska
Pablo Escobar Alaska, or city Alaska?? Because I have market there.....
leave Chris alone let him rest in peace...he done nothing to you or asked.you for amything to servive....so shutt mouth
Chris McCandless was a troubled young man who tried to live off the land in the wilds of Alaska and starved to death. He went into the bush without bothering to master necessary skills. He didn’t have a map, wore jeans (a real sign of a newbie), and carried 10 lbs of rice but no crampons. McCandless had no respect for wilderness, too much arrogance, or maybe he just wasn’t thinking. He was not a kid or a boy; he was a 24 year old man. If Chris had a map, he would have seen that the safe way out, the best way to cross the river was only a half-mile down where there was a gauging station built by the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s how Jon Krakauer, the author of “Into the Wild,” and his companions reached the bus. Chris wanted to go into Alaska as terra incognito but there was a bus there and cabins a few miles away. How incognito could it be? In a documentary about the movie, Krackauer explained McCandless’ thinking: “If the whole world is mapped, then don’t look at the map.” That’s suicidal.
There was probably a lot of snow around to pack the moose meat in,to keep it frozen. He was so nieve and inexperienced about survivalist living. So sad really.
I think Chris started his journey in life not knowing, but in the end I think he found The Lord.
Don't worry dude...don't take everything for understandable :-)
SHOULDN'T HAVE DRANK THE FUKKEN BONG WATER.
im just having fun reading all this stupid commentsviments. jajaja.
If this guy had scoffed a few mushrooms along the way he wouldn't have got into the mess he did...imo
really!!! I did my share of mushrooms, acid, crank, cocaine and pot........ When I was younger, had a shitty childhood and up bringing...... Got pregnant at 16, didn't finish high school married my high school sweetheart plus 2 more kids later,,,, I now own my own home and make almost $50,000 a year,,,,,,, My children and I are best friends and not only are we best friends, they are very well educated children, and make a lot money for themselves.... and they are very well rounded kids
Leggo madison high schoool
Keyboard warrior ^ me lol
sweet guy,but made many mistakes.
This is not the house that Chris grew up in!
You said that already. You want an interview or something.....
@@merak0044 Yeah, you're fucking funny!
If there had'nt been a bus in the story it would'nt have made it as a move!!
He definitely had mental issues and what he did to his parents was horrible.
He is lying
How do you know?