“Please return all mail I receive to the
sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure
proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a
great man. I now walk into the wild"(Krakauer 69). Chris is giving his
travel advise a bit too early on don't' cha think? It is a bit odd how he is
giving this letter to his loved ones, some could call it a suicide letter,
other could call it a cry of hope. But what I am saying is that he could never
know where Alaska may take him. His story just gets a bit fishy towards
the end. Chris is all about survival mode and that’s proven through his
adventures up and down the river, down to Mexico and the sea, so it’s a bit
ironic how he fought so hard to make it to sea, and then right before he leaves
for Alaska to hike Mt. McKinley he leaves this note...
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