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Through his research, Krakauer figures out that after a flash flood dampened the DatsunРІР‚в„ўs engine, Chris abandoned the malfunctioning car to conceal his predicament from his parents and the authorities.Р”В¬hris then hitchhikes throughout the west. Going back to October 1990, McCandlessРІР‚в„ў yellow Datsun is found abandoned in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

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Yet Wayne is arrested for stealing satellite TV codes, forcing Chris to hit the road in search of work.

Chris works so hard on WesterbergРІР‚в„ўs grain elevator crew that Wayne offers him a job. Two months after the discovery of McCandlessРІР‚в„ў body, Krakauer interviews grain elevator operator Wayne Westerberg, who recounts the day he picked up Chris, (going by РІР‚СљAlexРІР‚Сњ at the time), on his way back to Carthage, South Dakota. Alaska State troopers recover the corpse, taking it to a crime lab, which determines the cause of death to be starvation. Later that year, in September, a trio of moose hunters, a couple from Anchorage and an ATV driver, happen upon an abandoned bus in Denali National Park, where they discover ChrisРІР‚в„ў decomposing body. Gallien figures that the boy will reemerge out of the forest when he becomes hungry. Chris reluctantly accepts these gifts and walks onto the snowy Stampede Trail. But Chris refuses GallienРІР‚в„ўs advice, so Gallien insists that the young man take his lunch and boots with him. Gallien, noticing that ChrisРІР‚в„ўs backpack is far too light to be carrying enough supplies for an extended camping trip, tries to dissuade from hiking alone into the woods. The young man is Christopher McCandless, but he introduces himself as РІР‚Сљ AlexРІР‚Сњ and says that he intends to РІР‚Сљlive off the land for a few monthsРІР‚Сњ in Denali National Park. The young man turns out to be the runaway son of a well-to-do East Coast family, Christopher (Chris) McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in May 1990, gave away his savings to charity, abandoned his car, burned all his cash, and hitchhiked across the country РІР‚Сљto live off the landРІР‚Сњ in the Alaskan wilderness.Р”Р‡ive months earlier, on April 28, 1992, Jim Gallien, driving on the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska, spots a young hitchhiker and offers him a ride. When the body of a young male hiker is discovered in AlaskaРІР‚в„ўs Denali National Park, Outside magazine assigns journalist Jon Krakauer to cover the story.

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