The Sad Story Of Christopher McCandless, The Man From ‘Into The Wild’  

The Sad Story Of Christopher McCandless, The Man From ‘Into The Wild’  

Trista - November 12, 2019

The Sad Story Of Christopher McCandless, The Man From ‘Into The Wild’  
Chris, Walt, Billie, and Carine at Christopher’s graduation dinner from Emory University. Credit: Carine McCandless Family Collection via OutsideOnline

In 1971, Chris Learned an Unfortunate Secret About His Parents

Before graduating from Emory, Christopher discovered that his father had an entirely separate family in California. Why? Because he had not been divorced from his first wife when he met Billie. Christopher would eventually stop speaking to his father.

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