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The Sad Story Of Christopher McCandless, The Man From ‘Into The Wild’

Trista November 12, 2019 16 min

Into the Wild - Stampede Trail — Christopher, in one of his self-timed pictures outside of the bus he would ultimately pass away in. Credit: Wikipedia

In 1971, Chris Learned an Unfortunate Secret About His Parents

Chris, Walt, Billie, and Carine at Christopher’s graduation dinner from Emory University. Credit: Carine McCandless Family Collection via OutsideOnline

Before graduating from Emory, Christopher discovered that his father had an entirely separate family in California. Why? Because he had not been divorced from his first wife when he met Billie. Christopher would eventually stop speaking to his father.