At least，Chris lived for his own thoughts.
http://www.christophermccandless.info/
----此网站对Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)以及在他去世后发行的书籍和电影《荒野生存》做了全面的概述。这是一个关于一个年轻人追逐他的梦想并且在阿拉斯加的冒险中不幸终止的感人故事。
----This website is designed to give you a complete overview of Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) and the book/movie 'Into The Wild' that followed his passing. It is a moving story about a young man chasing after his dream and ultimate Alaskan adventure.
http://www.christophermccandless.info/
----Christopher Johnson McCandless 纪念基金的官方网站。这个基金有Chris的父母创建，旨在捐助那些Chris想要资助的慈善机构及个人。
----The offical website of The Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Foundation, Inc，which was created by Chris' parents, Billie and Walt McCandless, whose purpose was to distribute assets to charities and individuals in Christopher’s memory.
http://tifilms.com/wild/call_intro.htm
----此网站介绍了纪录片《荒野的呼唤》。纪录片的导演从他位于康克德，马赛诸塞州的家里出发，决心去追随Chris的脚步直到抵达被遗弃的位于史坦必德小径的阿拉斯加州矿业中心142路公车。92年的夏天Chris曾在这里生活并且最终在这里离世。
----The website of the documentary THE CALL OF THE WILD ,whose director loaded up a backpack and walked out his door in Concord, Massachusetts, determined to follow in Chris’s footsteps all the way to Fairbanks 142, the abandoned bus where Chris lived, and died, that summer on Stampede Trail.
http://www.backtothewildbook.org/
----书籍及DVD《回到荒野》的介绍。尝试去解释为什么聪明而且受过高等教育的Chris独自出发旅行。另外，Chris照的其他照片和他写的日记在什么地方是一个值得探讨的话题。
----The introduction of a book and DVD called Back To The Wild, which tries to answering why Chris,this talented and educated young man ventured off alone and more importantly, where are all of his other pictures that he took and journal that he kept.
http://www.stampedetrail.info/
----如果你计划徒步去阿拉斯加的史坦必德小径（在那里Chris找到了神奇巴士），或者是已经去过了并且想分享你的旅行，来这儿吧！
----If you are planning to hike the Alaskan Stampede Trail, where Chris found the Magic Bus NO.142, or have already done so and want to share your experiences, this is the place!
http://movie.douban.com/subject/1905462/
----豆瓣网上关于由Chris的故事改编的电影《荒野生存》的简介和评论。
----The introduction and comments of the film INTO THE WILD,2007,which is adapted from Chris' story.
Christopher Johnson McCandless was born February 12, 1968 in El Segundo, California. His parents are Walt McCandless and Wilhelmina Johnson (who was known as Billie) and his sister is Carine.Walt also had children from his first marriage and they were living in California, although Walt was still legally married to his first wife when Chris and Carine were born. (This is something that Chris found out later which infuriated him to the point where he thought his life had all been a lie)
In 1976, Walt was offered a job with NASA as an antenna specialist so they moved to Virginia and his mother worked as a secretary at Hughes Aircraft. Later Walt and Billie started a consultancy firm which became very successful. But it seems working and living together affected their marriage resulting in arguements in front of Chris and Carine which cause them to distance themselves from their parents.
Chris was a good student with A average grades and he was also a good runner leading a team of cross country runners.
But, he was very stubborn and strong willed. He would train his cross country team mates hard taking them on practise runs in places where it was easy to get lost. But he saw it as a challenge and saw running as a form of spiritual exercise. An example of his stubbornness was receiving an F for one subject becuase he refused to write an article in the particular way that the teacher had asked.
He graduated from High School in 1986 and shortly after took off on an solo adventure for the summer arriving back 2 days before he was due to start college. He arrived at college scruffy compared to his well dressed room mate. His room mate dropped out several weeks later but Chris went on to get exellent grades. He graduated from Emory University in 1990 but saw titles and honors as immaterial and irrelevant. Later he would say that university is a 20th century fad and not something to aspire to.
Shortly after graduation, he gave the remaining money from his education fund to Oxfam. The cheque written by Chris on 15th May 1990, totalled $24000. He then left quietly from home to begin his adventures and assumed the name Alexander Supertramp of which he got from the book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by William H. Davies from 1908. When asked by someone where his family were, he would reply that he didn't have a family anymore.
He travelled through various states of America in his car (which he left after it was caught in a flash flood) and by train, hiking, canoeing and of course walking. The challenge to himself was to travel with the least amount of belongings as possible and as little money as possible. He had no map and no agenda, just the will to travel.
His dream was the Alaskan adventure and he would tell this to those he met along the way. Some people he worked for on odd jobs would try to convince him to stay and some would insist on giving him supplies to help with the journey.
He seldom accepted.
He reached his final destination on April 28, 1992 in Fairbanks Alaska.
Four months later he would perish from a combination of errors and his body was found in an abandoned old Fairbanks
City Transit Bus numbered 142 which was located on the Stampede Trail.
He kept a journal along the way and took self portraits now and then. His final self portrait was a picture of him holding a farewell note in his left hand and waving with his right hand. He was but 30kg in weight and eventually died of starvation and possibly poisoning from fungus on some fruit he had eaten.
His body was found by hunters 19 days after he died and later his parents would visit Bus 142 to leave a memorial
Jon Krakauer (A writer from Outside magazine) did an article on Chris in January 1993 and later wrote the book which
in 2007 became the movie 'Into the Wild' by Sean Penn.
Chris'es actions have caused many different debates on safety in the wild and what not to do and many have said that
what he did amounted to suicide. But, he has also had a lot of praise for his courage and spirit of adventure. Bus 142 has become somewhat of a tourist attraction, with many visiting every year and posting Youtube vidoes and pictures on the internet.There is also a documentary on the Chris McCandless story. You can read more here.
