Moose

Yellowstone National Park was established on March 1, 1872. It is the world’s first national park. Yellowstone National Park is located in the U.S., northwest corner of Wyoming, and includes small areas of Montana and Idaho as well. Yellowstone National Park is about 9,000 square kilometers (3,500 square miles) wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot. It’s the site of America’s greatest concentration of geysers and hot springs, which form a visible and spectacular link with…

Alex’s cheap leather hiking boots were neither waterproof nor well insulated” (Krakauer pg. 5). While living his Alaskan odyssey he learned to find edible berries, hunt for porcupine, squirrels, grey bird and, “he bragged the biggest prize of all: “MOOSE!” (Krakauer pg. 166) Due to the cold weather and the inexperience he had on how to maintain meat from rotting his meat went…

Setting Brian Robeson, a child of divorced parents, is going to visit his father up North in Canada. He leaves from New York City, where his mother lives, and sets off for Canada in the small, private plane. While over the middle of nowhere in the Canadian wilderness, the pilot suffers a heart attack, forcing Brian to take control of the plane. He crash lands the plane by a lake surrounded by wilderness, and is injured and jarred from the crash. Stranded and alone in the wilderness, Brian…

Europeans. One of the main victims of the fur trade was the beaver. The beaver became severely endangered by the 1670’s. “Pynchons son John managed between 1652 and 1658 to procure from Indians nearly 9000 beaver pelts, in addition to hundreds of moose, otter, muskrat, fox, raccoon, mink, marten, and lynx skins.” (Cronon 99). The Indians had fallen into another one of the Europeans traps, which only worsened the impact of the Europeans on New England. By the 1800’s, the Indians had limited…

drank. Chris always had his mind on the prize: Alaska. No one had any idea that this Alaska adventure would be his final adventure. In Alaska, Chris finds a bus that he makes his home, complete with a chore list and all his belongings. He shoots a moose but feels remorse for doing so as the meat had gone to waste with maggots infesting it. He attempted to return back but the trail he previously walked on was flooded, he knew it would be suicide to even attempt to cross over so he decided to…

Survival of the fittest is the law that all animals must obey. Humans have very specific natural instincts that they are born with, one of the most essential being survival. The lack of shelter, food and communication negatively impacts the mental and physical health of any human being, and this experience is demonstrated in the movie, “Into the Wild” and in the documentary, “Grizzly Man”. Into the Wild is more effective at portraying the theme of survival than Grizzly Man because of the…

“I call it the cut-and-paste apartment,” Walter Youngblood, an artist and ice-cream man, said of the fourth-floor walk-up in East Harlem where he’s lived for 20 years. He bartered a painting for the stove and rescued the bashed-in mini-chandelier from the trash. It hangs in the kitchen, which has colonized half the living room. The refrigerator stands in a far corner, and steel wire shelves jut out, with dangling pots, pans and heavy-duty sieves at the ready. But the tool that Mr. Youngblood,…

n isolating himself from those around him. After graduation he takes off and fails to speak to his parents, or even his sister he was so close with. As months, even years pass, they all continue to worry and can’t do a thing about it. Carine swears one night she heard his voice calling “Mom! Help me!” Chapter 13 In Chapter 13 of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the author interviews Chris McCandless’s younger sister, Carine. She is compared to McCandless several times throughout this chapter.…

off it is because of how cold it is up north. A wolf can live I cold weather and high mountainous regions because they have adapted to do so. During the winter is when wolves do great in my opinion because all of the deer and elk or even sometimes a moose are more spread out looking for food themselves. Wolves can do harm to a different animal population, but people…

A shockingly tragic story of failed survival in the wilderness alongside a sad story of family turmoil left unresolved will spawn controversy over whether or not this sad tale was avoidable in the first place. This upsetting occurrence surrounding a young American hiker who separated from his family completely, never to be heard from again, raised concerns. The logic of the 24 year old Chris McCandless is heavily debated in terms of the mental health of the traveler. Many consider Chris was…