I think it’s more like people want to pretend it’s an uplifting story about having the courage to break free from society’s constraints, but it’s actually a cautionary tale about why you shouldn’t do that. The book/movie actually reinforces the status quo and discourages stepping outside the lines.
It’s been decades since I read the book but didn’t Krakauer basically call him an idiot?
Krakauer celebrated him as an idealistic, adventurous young man doing a dumb thing all adventurous young men do. I couldn’t put the book down and most everyone I know who read it said the same thing.
You must have seen/read a totally different movie/book than I did.
There’s been some research on it and the myth is that he died slowly of starvation because he was a city kid who didn’t know what he was doing, but they found he had well above the stores necessary to survive the winter.
Then something happened that forced him to start gathering berries and nuts, the author of the piece I read hypothesized that some portion of his meat reserves didn’t cure correctly. He then gathered that berries that were poisonous but looked just like some healthy ones, and slowly poisoned himself without knowing.
I’ll have to go find the article
Yea i had read the same thing, i thought that was pretty well known, eventually he got too weak from the berries to do anything i think.
I had to look up when the book was published because I thought there was no possible way it was decades ago. I guess once you get old enough everything starts to feel like “bout 10 years ago or so”.
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We are old as shit man!
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This is how I remember it. He has written about similar dumb things he did. I also vaguely remember a story of his about solo crossing a glacier to get to climb in Alaska and buying some curtain rods or something to put across his pack in case he fell into a crevasse. I’m not sure what the plan was in the unlikely event that even stopped him.
I think that was on his solo of Devil’s Thumb.
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Have you experienced listening to a classic rock station and they play a song that came out when you were in high school? That’s a fun one.
There’s a part of my brain that never has and likely never will enter the 21st century.
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Dude fucking Nirvana is classic rock!!!
They might as well put us out to pasture.
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For me it was Blind Melon.
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I think this started happening to me bout 10 years ago or so.
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The best music ever came out between 1985 and 1995. It’s just science.
Add 6 or 7 to both of those numbers.
What’s funnier to me is that that same classic rock radio station (101 The Fox) in Kansas City is still playing the exact same songs and has a lot of the exact same DJs as when I was in HS there 33 years ago.
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Actually I had to check. Pixies Come on Pilgrim was 1987 so I’ll allow the revision.
I’ve got mid sixties to mid seventies as the best for my tastes. Even if almost everything I listen to now was released after 2010.
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