The Call of the Wild

The documentary follows the journey of Christopher McCandless. The young man described himself as someone whose home was the road. He set out from Atlanta in 1990. He went to Arizona and down into Mexico. He stopped at the Salton Sea in California. He stayed on the streets of Las Vegas. He worked in a small town called Carthage in South Dakota. He passed through many other places along the way. In the spring of 1992 he turned north. He walked into the woods in Alaska. He stayed there one hundred thirteen days. He died of starvation in August. He was twenty four years old. The director travelled the same roads and filmed them. The conclusions he reaches do not match the widely told accounts. Ron Lamothe directed the documentary. It is an American production finished in 2007.