However, McCandless does not tell his parents Walt (William Hurt) and Billie McCandless (Marcia Gay Harden) nor his sister Carine (Jena Malone) what he is doing or where he is going, and refuses to keep in touch with them after his departure, leaving them to become increasingly anxious and eventually desperate.Īt Lake Mead, Arizona, McCandless' car is caught in a flash flood causing him to abandon it and begin hitchhiking instead. He donates nearly all of his entire savings of $24,000 to Oxfam and sets out on a cross-country drive in his well-used, but reliable Datsun B210 to experience life in the wilderness. Shortly afterwards, McCandless rejects his conventional life by destroying all of his credit cards and identification documents. Two years earlier in May 1990, McCandless graduated with high honors from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 22 caliber rifle, reads books, and keeps a diary of his thoughts as he prepares for himself a new life in the wild. At first, McCandless is content with the isolation, the beauty of nature around him, and the thrill of living off the land. In May 1992, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in a remote area just north of the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska and sets up a campsite in an abandoned bus (The Magic Bus).
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