Into the Wild - 6th hour

  • Everett RuessEverett Ruess recieves his high school diploma and writes a letter to his family informing him of his new name. Everett Ruess disappeares into the Gulch Canyon

  • Chris McCandless is born

  • Chris and his family move

  • Arrived in Bullhead

  • John Krakayer successfully climbs devils thumb after many attempts

  • Chris graduates Woodson high school

  • Chris moved out of his college

  • Crazy Ernie offered CM a job at a ranch in NorCal

  • Chris graduates from Emory university in Atlanta

  • McCandless first visit to Carthage

  • Chris' parents had not heard from him since he sent his grades in the mail

  • Spring - Starting to prep going out in the wild

  • Leaving Carthage in South Dakota

  • Leaving Carthage in SD

  • Chris arrives in Lake Mead National Park

  • Chris hikes around lake mead - gets heat stroke, flags down boaters to take him to Callville bay

  • CM ticketed for hitchhiking near Willow Creek

  • Wayne picked up Chris when he was hitchhiking

  • Bought a canoe and paddles down Colorado River

  • July & August - Spent on Oregon Coast

  • Departed from Las Vegas

  • Hitched down highway 101 in CA

  • Landed in Bullcity, AZ

  • Sent letter to Jan Burres

  • He fell through ice somewhere in Fairbanks

  • Chris threw map away and turned around

  • Arrived at Liard Rive Hotsprings

  • They arrived in Fairbanks

  • Fairbanks: McCandless sends last postcard/letter before he departs for adventure

  • He came upon the bus by Sushana River

  • His Crown fell out of his molar

  • CM packed up & started the 20 mile hike to the road

  • Entered in his journal "extremely weak. fault of seed"

  • Body is found by other explorers

  • Sam finds out about Chris's death

  • Carine finds out about Chris' death

  • Results of seed (poison) reinforced

  • Krakauer - seeds

  • Krakauer produced new verion of nook with a new explanation of CM death (seeds)