Hiking boot

The race between the sunrise and myself was underway. It was five in the morning and the sun was scheduled to rise at seven. There was a thirty minute drive in the way along with an hour of hiking. Not only would this be a close race; it would be one that could decide between me, and my first deer. I had been hunting for a couple of years, but have found nothing worthy of being my first harvest buck. If you shoot a young buck, there won't be any bigger ones in the upcoming harvest. With my rifle…

If Chris was properly prepared for his journey he may have be able to survive, rather than dying of starvation. He traveled with cheap hiking boots, a bag of rice, and minimal clothing for the types of conditions that he would be encountering. His need for independence and his “do it all myself” attitude is also a contributing factor to his death. People that Chris met along way would offer…

Just Survive Somehow I never really planned to say goodbye to my family. The old Arian wouldn't have cared about what my family thought of me. I was too busy roaming the streets trying to find more money than I had as a kid. I guess nothing much has changed since then. In my opinion, everything happened too swiftly before I knew it, I got used to bargain for clothes, food, etc. One thing that I was not prepared for was the tantalizing that I would get from the people around me. No, not just,…

Barbara Jordan once said, “Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o 'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap”. Would a better world like this take Chris’ life? In the novel Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer recounted a true story of Christopher McCandless’ Alaskan adventure. He stripped himself of most of his possessions, leaving his backpack as the only companion, then sets off into the wild to find reality. Chris…

unceremoniously shoving Andi out of the way to reveal a young man in his late teens or early twenties. ‘Hey,’ he smiled at Dr Fossick, then at Alexa. Without introducing himself to Andi, he took up a position leaning against the door. His black hiking boots crossed over grey camouflage-patterned combat pants that hung loosely over his thin, wiry frame. His arms crossed over a plastic, black bubble vest in white, casual shirt…

¨ The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun” (Krakauer 40), remarked Chris McCandless, the idealistic adventurer who embarked on a once in a lifetime expedition throughout the North American wilderness in Jon Krakauer 's novel, Into The Wild. Within the story, McCandless was both an ill-prepared greenhorn and an adventurer; with his free-spirited,…

What three items would YOU bring along if you were stranded on an unidentified piece of fertile land? Your grimy cell phone? An infinite supply of canned cream corn? I’ll tell you now that what I had initially brought were definitely top necessitates someone would need to bring, because I’m supposed to know that type of stuff. Passed down from a long lineage, my family has been known for being quite the outdoorsmen if I do say so myself; it is the cultured norm to care about those sorts of…

Two people in seemingly safe circumstances can suddenly find themselves trying to escape death. One example of this is in Z for Zachariah, a novel by Robert O’Brien that takes place in the only safe place in a completely irradiated world, a small valley in which Ann Burden finds herself stuck with a murderer. Unlike Ann, Chris struggles to survive in nature. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer features a survivalist named Christopher McCandless who tries to live in the Alaskan wilderness with a…

When one thinks of an adolescent becoming an adult in America, one may think of graduating high school and then college, and later starting a career. Chris McCandless, however, mainly refused this concept, and sought a different idea all together, one that primarily included living in the wilderness. Although his journey concluded in death, Chris McCandless, through rejecting the norms of American society, succeeded in his version of a fulfilling life. McCandless did so by persuading the people…

Would America be able to survive a zombie apocalypse if one were to occur without any giving notice? Zombies are defined to be relentlessly aggressive, reanimated human corpse driven by a biological infection (Staff, 2012). With just one bite a zombie could turn a human into one of them. The thought of zombies taking any part in this world may seem odd to some civilians but one can never be to cautious. It is better to be safe than sorry and be completely taken by surprise when a zombie…