The Legacy of Darwin Award Winner Christopher McCandless | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror. It's amazing how many idiots were "inspired" by his story rather than learning from it.

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What's your point?

Darwin Award winners don't usually receive such a vociferous defense. Usually everyone has a good laugh at the moron and moves on.

Deeply unhappy people will throw their lives away in lots of ways.

And for some reason there were a lot of people who really really loved this man and his complete unpreparedness to go out into a hostile wilderness without any training or equipment. They made a movie about him, for chrissake.

The real hero in this story was the electrician, who tried to help by offering to drive him into town to buy supplies for him with his own money. Ended up giving him the boots off his feet instead when McCandless refused(!) Did he get a movie made about him? Hell no.