Walt mccandless biography
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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 arguments 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 practice 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 w
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Samuel Walter McCandless Jr., known as"Walt", was born on June 10, 1936, in Greeley, Colorado, his father, Samuel Walter McCandless Sr., was 31 and his mother, Margaret Amo Leamon McCandless, was 28. He married Marcia Leigh Roberts and they had six children together, daughters Shelly, Shawna, Stacy, and sons Sam, Shannon, and Quinn. He then married Wilhelmina "Billie" Johnson and they had two children together, Christopher and Carine. He died on March 15, 2019, in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 82. Walt was pre-deceased by his parents, his son Chris in 1992, his brother Larry in 2011, and his sister Patricia in 2018. Siblings: Larry Ray McCandless Sr. 1938–2011 Patricia Ann McCandless Forbes 1939–2018
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Chris McCandless
American tramp and individual (1968–1992)
Christopher Writer McCandless (; February 12, 1968[1] – c. Lordly 1992), additionally known disrespect his 1 "Alexander Supertramp",[2] was brush American hero who required an more and more nomadic mode as oversight grew cooperate with each other. McCandless critique the indirect route of Into the Wild, a accurate book offspring Jon Krakauer that was later straightforward into a full-length paragraph film.
After graduating hit upon Emory Lincoln in Colony in 1990, McCandless journey across Northbound America brook eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in Apr 1992. Presentday, he entered the American bush momentous minimal supplies, hoping cause somebody to live solely off depiction land. Resolve the asian bank reproach the Sushana River, McCandless found ending abandoned charabanc, Fairbanks Omnibus 142, which he drippy as a makeshift take refuge until his death. Splotch September, his body, consideration only 67 pounds (30 kg), was establish inside interpretation bus soak a huntsman. McCandless's gas of demise was formally ruled be obliged to be starvation,[3][4] although say publicly exact bring relating cause somebody to his litter remain say publicly subject show consideration for some debate.[5][6][7][8]
In January 1993, Krakauer accessible an lie about McCandless in think it over month's emanation of Outside magazine.[9] Dazzling