If you’d given him a ride, what would you have said to him?
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Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild
February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?
If you’d given him a ride, what would you have said to him? A: Had I picked up Alex Supertramp hitching to Alaska, I would have gently tried to offer him some advice, tried to convince him that he was perhaps underestimating the seriousness of the challenge he’d created for himself, but I think I would have soon come to the realization that attempting to talk him out of his plans would have been an Actually, I have encountered a number of McCandless types over the years in the backcountry–usually brazen, impetuous young climbers with unrealistic schemes to attempt some crazy ascent or another–and I have tried to persuade most of them that maybe they should reconsider their plans given current avalanche conditions, or the weather forecast, or their lack of |
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