“In his state of hunger, McCandless simply made the mistake of ingesting its seed pods. A person with a better grasp of botanical principles would probably not have eaten them but it was an incorrect error. It was however sufficient to do him in.”(Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Doubleday, 1996.) If he was prepared to with his Geological survey topographical map he would have seen the cabins were only about six miles away and he may have been able to reach this destination where emergency food and shelter would have been
“In his state of hunger, McCandless simply made the mistake of ingesting its seed pods. A person with a better grasp of botanical principles would probably not have eaten them but it was an incorrect error. It was however sufficient to do him in.”(Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Doubleday, 1996.) If he was prepared to with his Geological survey topographical map he would have seen the cabins were only about six miles away and he may have been able to reach this destination where emergency food and shelter would have been