The Fiction That Is Jon Krakauer’s ‘Into the Wild’
Craig Medred January 10, 2015
Books • January 2015 • Views: 2,395
Twenty-two years after a young man named Chris McCandless was found dead in a long-abandoned bus north of Denali National Park and Preserve, a plausible explanation has arisen as to why the 24-year-old man stayed there until he starved to death: toxic mushrooms.
A noted authority on Alaska mushrooms who this year examined one of those photos identified some of the mushrooms McCandless was eating as “Amanita muscaria.” Those have been known to make people sick and cause hallucinations.