Having just got done watching the movie called, "Into The Wild" I thought it would be a good topic for readers to think about. This movie was about a young man, Christopher McCandless, who left society, changed his name to Alexander Supertramp, and left to live alone in the Alaska wilderness out past Fairbanks. He was doing ok, but was losing weight due to a lack of game, trying to survive on food he had brought in with him and native plants. The only game he managed to find was squirrels and rabbits, porcupines and a moose.
In the movie he kills a moose in the summer and tries to smoke and cook the meat before the flies laid eggs in the meat. However, fast he thought he had worked the flies managed to lay eggs and worms were hatching out of the meat even as it was cooking. Thus, all the moose meat was ruined. Seemed a bit strange, but that is the movie presented it.
Anyways, he couldn't find game to shoot and it only showed him fishing once, but showed him getting thinner and thinner.
Finally he started looking for more wild plants to eat and he ate the seed pod of a plant that was normally avoided as it was poisonous and developed nausea and it stopped his digestive system from working. He lived through it but was very weak and had no body mass or strength left. And within a few days he had died from starvation. This young man from Virginia had managed to live out in the wild only for a short time because he was unprepared for living in the wild for extended periods of time. The sad part was the story was true and it could happen to anyone who goes into the woods unprepared and unaware of safe plants and ones that are poisonous.
That is why it is very important to know what your eating is safe and to learn about wild plants ahead of time so that in an emergency you will be ready and able to feed yourself from the wild.
Has anyone here read the book or seen the movie? I thought it was very moving and wonderful how much this young man managed to do and see, through-out the United States and even down to Mexico, before his untimely death. (Born 1968-1992)
Even if you have not seen the movie it is on youtube, what are your thoughts on this boys life?
Please share your comments here.
In the movie he kills a moose in the summer and tries to smoke and cook the meat before the flies laid eggs in the meat. However, fast he thought he had worked the flies managed to lay eggs and worms were hatching out of the meat even as it was cooking. Thus, all the moose meat was ruined. Seemed a bit strange, but that is the movie presented it.
Anyways, he couldn't find game to shoot and it only showed him fishing once, but showed him getting thinner and thinner.
Finally he started looking for more wild plants to eat and he ate the seed pod of a plant that was normally avoided as it was poisonous and developed nausea and it stopped his digestive system from working. He lived through it but was very weak and had no body mass or strength left. And within a few days he had died from starvation. This young man from Virginia had managed to live out in the wild only for a short time because he was unprepared for living in the wild for extended periods of time. The sad part was the story was true and it could happen to anyone who goes into the woods unprepared and unaware of safe plants and ones that are poisonous.
That is why it is very important to know what your eating is safe and to learn about wild plants ahead of time so that in an emergency you will be ready and able to feed yourself from the wild.
Has anyone here read the book or seen the movie? I thought it was very moving and wonderful how much this young man managed to do and see, through-out the United States and even down to Mexico, before his untimely death. (Born 1968-1992)
Even if you have not seen the movie it is on youtube, what are your thoughts on this boys life?
Please share your comments here.