Epic story! Read the book while I was going to adventure guiding school. An inspirational story of adventure and challenge that helped shape my attitude on life. The movie is a quest in finding the true self and the true spirit of America.
yes, there are very few if any maps that come of much use around the bus. The stampede trail is barely even visible on the map that encompasses all of Denali Nat'l Park.
Krakauer has admitted that Chris had a road map- he writes about the map in his book saying that Chris was going to follow a red line on that map which showed the Stampede trail. But he claims that a roadmap would not have been much use to Chris because it did not have enough topographic detail. For instance, a road map would not have shown the gauging station with a trammel on the river or the braided parts of the river where Chris might have been able to cross. This is true but there is a way in which the road map would have helped Chris. Any road map which showed the Stampede trail would have also showed the Denali Park Road just 18 miles south of the bus. He could have walked over the low mountains and over to the Park road without having to cross any rivers. But that would have involved leaving the gravel Stampede road and actually forging a trail on his own at a point when he had just flat run out of energy to do anything other than pick berries and shoot squirrels. I suspect that he read some of the hunters' graffiti on the walls of the bus from past years and therefore expected some hunting party to come out in August who would help him. Hunters did eventually show up but it was too late for Supertramp...
Great video. The sad thing about this is as visitors increase to see the bus so will the grafitti and souvenir hunters. Ryan's Daughter, a film by David Lean was made here in Ireland. They left the schoolhouse depicted in the film and I visited in 1970 when it was intact. I went back two years ago and its a ruin from trophy hunters taking bits away. It starts with grafitti and then they start pulling strips off. It should be left as a monument to the man. Look at some of the recent clips.
This one guy, Ron Lamothe, who made a documentary about McCandless claims that Krakauer actually not only knows Chris DID HAVE a map with him but is also distorting the truth to make the story more appealing. He's debunking some other Krakauer/Penn stuff, too. The documentary is called The Call of the Wild, and the website has a section dedicated to this.
@Dix994 exactly!....Sean Penn should read the book "Alaskas Wolf Man" by Jim Rearden, NOW THAT would be a great movie. Thousands have done what Chris tried to do, you dont get second chances in AK.
I can't believe Krakauer says at 3:30 into this video that they "flew" in three buses and later "flew" two of them out! Surely he knows the buses were drug in there with bulldozers. Two of them were pulled back out but the one had a broken axle so they left it at Sushana river.
Alive and Kicking exactly! They weren't flying in buses just to sleep in... and I heard the same thing with the broken axle so the d8 dozer couldn't pull it across the rough terrain.
When Chris first started his journey, he burned his money in Detrital Wash. He may very well have gotten another ID card when he was working again in "civilization" at the MacDonald's. Before he left for Alaska, he had worked in Carthage, SD and made a bunch of money...he didn't destroy it, but used it. How can you assume that everything you pointed out in Krakauer's take is false...especially since he wrote the book based on extensive interviews, research, and Chris' own journal?
+Jeep Man I don't know. Looks like it was deep enough water to fill up a pair of hip boots. And chest waders would have a lot surface area resistance to the current that would knock him off his feet. I think he should have had a pole to help him balance but other than that he did pretty well. Of course, he had enough money to bring along a helicopter so he could just "go for it".
Dear Krakauer & Penn, Your careless video inventory of Chris' stuff marked all of that for theft by the assholes who find it a thrill to go out there and ruin it for everyone else by way of their guns and sticky fingers. How amazingly irresponsible for two adult professionals that should know better. Im not impressed.
Awesome! Loved the movie, Loved the Book, and now I'm like addicted to the whole story... I can't stopo watching all these videos!! Keep it up!
Epic story! Read the book while I was going to adventure guiding school. An inspirational story of adventure and challenge that helped shape my attitude on life. The movie is a quest in finding the true self and the true spirit of America.
Ano Chris byl mimořádný člověk obdivuji.
To quote Josey Wales...... "dying ain`t much of a living"
yes, there are very few if any maps that come of much use around the bus. The stampede trail is barely even visible on the map that encompasses all of Denali Nat'l Park.
Krakauer has admitted that Chris had a road map- he writes about the map in his book saying that Chris was going to follow a red line on that map which showed the Stampede trail. But he claims that a roadmap would not have been much use to Chris because it did not have enough topographic detail. For instance, a road map would not have shown the gauging station with a trammel on the river or the braided parts of the river where Chris might have been able to cross.
This is true but there is a way in which the road map would have helped Chris. Any road map which showed the Stampede trail would have also showed the Denali Park Road just 18 miles south of the bus. He could have walked over the low mountains and over to the Park road without having to cross any rivers. But that would have involved leaving the gravel Stampede road and actually forging a trail on his own at a point when he had just flat run out of energy to do anything other than pick berries and shoot squirrels.
I suspect that he read some of the hunters' graffiti on the walls of the bus from past years and therefore expected some hunting party to come out in August who would help him. Hunters did eventually show up but it was too late for Supertramp...
Great video. The sad thing about this is as visitors increase to see the bus so will the grafitti and souvenir hunters. Ryan's Daughter, a film by David Lean was made here in Ireland. They left the schoolhouse depicted in the film and I visited in 1970 when it was intact. I went back two years ago and its a ruin from trophy hunters taking bits away. It starts with grafitti and then they start pulling strips off. It should be left as a monument to the man. Look at some of the recent clips.
This one guy, Ron Lamothe, who made a documentary about McCandless claims that Krakauer actually not only knows Chris DID HAVE a map with him but is also distorting the truth to make the story more appealing. He's debunking some other Krakauer/Penn stuff, too. The documentary is called The Call of the Wild, and the website has a section dedicated to this.
elmo61 yes sir! That documentary is amazing and new revelations came out of it!
there is a lion rampant in the bus!
this is my ultimate dreamjob, i pursue this job life after high school :)
@Dix994 exactly!....Sean Penn should read the book "Alaskas Wolf Man" by Jim Rearden, NOW THAT would be a great movie. Thousands have done what Chris tried to do, you dont get second chances in AK.
I can't believe Krakauer says at 3:30 into this video that they "flew" in three buses and later "flew" two of them out! Surely he knows the buses were drug in there with bulldozers. Two of them were pulled back out but the one had a broken axle so they left it at Sushana river.
Alive and Kicking exactly! They weren't flying in buses just to sleep in... and I heard the same thing with the broken axle so the d8 dozer couldn't pull it across the rough terrain.
If killing a moose and wasting meat is the greatest tradgedie of his life,fuck he had a good life.
same here
wow
When Chris first started his journey, he burned his money in Detrital Wash. He may very well have gotten another ID card when he was working again in "civilization" at the MacDonald's.
Before he left for Alaska, he had worked in Carthage, SD and made a bunch of money...he didn't destroy it, but used it.
How can you assume that everything you pointed out in Krakauer's take is false...especially since he wrote the book based on extensive interviews, research, and Chris' own journal?
man, Jon has some mouth. lol
What's with the Scotland flag in the bus? :o
@stevealaska73 haha your funny
all the money sean penn has made i would think he would have enough sense to purchase a pair of hip boots or chest waders. Just sayin.
+Jeep Man I don't know. Looks like it was deep enough water to fill up a pair of hip boots. And chest waders would have a lot surface area resistance to the current that would knock him off his feet. I think he should have had a pole to help him balance but other than that he did pretty well. Of course, he had enough money to bring along a helicopter so he could just "go for it".
he didnt have a map? wierd.
Dear Krakauer & Penn,
Your careless video inventory of Chris' stuff marked all of that for theft by the assholes who find it a thrill to go out there and ruin it for everyone else by way of their guns and sticky fingers. How amazingly irresponsible for two adult professionals that should know better. Im not impressed.
Too bad the movie was kind of a dud...