Chris McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and trekked into the Last Frontier's wilderness. Five months later, he was found dead, ...

Chris McCandless, also known as Alexander Supertramp, was a 24-year-old adventurer who died in the Alaskan wilderness after ...

Chris McCandless ventured into the Alaskan wilderness, where he tragically died five months later, his emaciated body found ...

In April 1992, 24-year-old adventurer Chris McCandless set out to test his survival skills in the Alaskan wilderness ...

Made famous by the book and movie Into the Wild, Chris McCandless was a ... Hamilton suspected that the wild potato seeds had caused lathyrism in McCandless, paralyzing him before he could get ...

In 1993, Krakauer published an article on the death of Chris McCandless ... In it, Krakauer speculated that McCandless died due to toxic alkaloids in wild-potato seeds. (From his journal ...

The chemist found that, indeed, the wild potato seeds contained the amino acid that causes lathyrism. So Chris McCandless may indeed have died of starvation, Krakauer concludes, in a long article ...

By adding potato seeds to the menu ... If that were the case, Chris McCandless would now be forty-five years old. Jon Krakauer’s most recent books are “Three Cups of Deceit,” “Where ...

On May 2, Jon Krakauer came out with his latest treatise on the particulars of Chris McCandless ... changed his theory: McCandless had eaten seeds from the wild potato plant, and those seeds ...

Chris McCandless set out on a perilous journey into Alaska's harsh wilderness, but just five months later the 24-year-old was ...

Chris McCandless, also known as Alexander Supertramp, died after spending 113 days living off the land in the Alaskan ...

On September 12, 2013, I posted an article titled “How Chris McCandless Died ... by eating seeds from a plant known colloquially as wild potato, and known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum.