His Cause of Death was Most Likely from Wild Potato Poisoning
In August 1992, a moose hunter found an abandoned bus just off the Stampede Trail in a remote Alaskan area. Inside the bus, 24-year-old Christopher’s remains were found still curled up in his sleeping bag. When the body was initially discovered, the official ruling as to the cause of death was starvation. As the story of his death circled the world, speculation that he may have starved because of the ingestion of wild potato seeds spread. Wild potato seeds contain an amino acid known to prevent the absorption of nutrients and slowly paralyze the person ingesting them, making an already-weak body unable to hunt or gather any other sustenance.