‘They still smell like Chris.'”Walt and Billie gathered their son’s undeveloped film and negatives, his camera, field glasses ... Chris’ demise,” Walt McCandless said in an interview ...

Later, Walt plunged in and realized that publishing some of the material would be a way for Chris “to write his own story.” He was right. The photos chart McCandless’s epic canoe trip down ...

The story of Christopher McCandless will be familiar to anyone who watched the 2007 film Into the Wild, which was a biographical dramatisation of the events preceding his death. McCandless had ...

Much of the book's first 50 riveting pages paint an appalling picture of the dysfunctional McCandless family before Chris escaped to college. Troubling scenes of sadistic abuse, of brutal fights ...