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Chris McCandless was born in El Segundo, California.
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After graduating, he donated his college savings of $24,000 to OXFAM and adopted a vagabond lifestyle, working when necessary as a restaurant food preparer and farmhand.
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Chris McCandless burns his money in Houston, Texas.
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Chris McCandless's car got taken by a flash flood.
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Jan Burres and Bob Itinerant couple who meets McCandless in the summer of 1990 when he is searching for edible berries alongside U.S. Highway 101. Estranged from her own son, Jan takes a special interest in McCandless.
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Wayne Westerberg is a grain elevator operator who picks up the broke and hungry hitchhiker.
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Chris worked with Wayne on his crew. After three days of working on Westerberg's crew, Wayne offers Chris a job if he ever needs one in the future.
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Ron Franz is a Vietnam veteran and leatherworker who lives in Salton City, California. Eighty years old, muscular and tall, Franz is a recovered alcoholic and a widowed father who lost his son to a drunk driving accident while he was overseas.
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Chris promises Ron that this is where he would meet him again after his trip. This was the last time they saw each other.
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McCandless meets Gaylord Stuckey, a sixty-three-year-old man who is driving an RV to a dealership in Fairbanks.
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Gaylord drove Chris as much as he could because of Gaylord's job.
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Chris McCandless stays in Fairbanks for three days, where he studied in a library for help to survive in the wild.
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Jim Gallien is an electrician who picked up the hitchhiking Chris McCandless and gave him a ride to the Stampede Trail, where McCandless walked into the wilderness.
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The trail is only used in the summer and winter. Two big rivers are surrounding it and makes it impossible to cross over during other seasons. Once Chris made it he found a Fairbanks city transit bus. Chris spent the next five months on the bus. He survived using the knowledge he learned at the library in Fairbanks.
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Chris McCandless eventually dies after just surviving off of small animals and plants. The last words Chris McCandless wrote were “I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”
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McCandless's badly decomposed body was found Sept. 6 by hunters on the sparsely traveled Stampede Trail just outside Denali National Park, 100 miles southwest of Fairbanks
