watched this other night - was an ok film

BUT whey are they sensationalising him ?

If you ask me the guy was an idiot who went into the wilderness with little preparation - not a good idea if you are planning on living there.

That guy at beginning him gave him some boots for god sake which he didn't even have (incidentally the guy who drops him off in the beginning is not an actor and is the actual guy who did drop him off in real life - the last person to see him alive !) Apparently if he had had a map he would have also been able to walk out of there in a day or so (even with the river being like it was).

Actually just found this on net which just about sums him up.....

Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote: “I am exposed continually to what I will call the ‘McCandless Phenomenon.’ People, nearly always young men, come to Alaska to challenge themselves against an unforgiving wilderness landscape where convenience of access and possibility of rescue are practically nonexistent […] When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he [had] had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament […] Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide.”[1