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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fault of potato seeds,'" says Krakauer ... There's no way to know exactly how many of the seeds Chris McCandless ate in that two week period leading up to his death. And there isn't much research ...

Thank you, Chris McCandless ... McCandless's death wasn't starvation but rather the ingestion of wild potato seeds. McCandless's diaries indicated he consumed a significant amount of these ...

Twenty years after Chris McCandless died alone ... meaning of life felled by some poisonous seeds. The poisonous seeds part turned out to be bunk. McCandless wasn't killed by the seeds.

After a second round of intensive scientific research, “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer has revised his theory on the precise circumstances of the death of Chris McCandless, the book’s ...

The potato seeds he consumed weren't believed to be ... If that were the case, Chris McCandless would now be forty-five years old.

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.

Twenty years after Chris McCandless died alone ... meaning of life felled by some poisonous seeds. The poisonous seeds part turned out to be bunk. McCandless wasn't killed by the seeds.