After spending several months with Franz, McCandless decides to leave for Alaska despite this upsetting Franz, who has become quite close to McCandless. Franz teaches McCandless the craft of leatherwork, resulting in the making of a belt that details McCandless' travels. He now occupies his time in a workshop as an amateur leather worker. While camping near Salton City, California, McCandless encounters Ron Franz (Hal Holbrook), a retired man who recounts the story of the loss of his family in a car accident while he was serving in the United States Army. After the holidays, McCandless decides to continue heading for Alaska, much to everyone's sadness. There, he meets Tracy Tatro (Kristen Stewart), a teenage girl who shows interest in McCandless, but he rejects her because she is underage. In December 1991, McCandless arrives at Slab City in the Imperial Valley region of California, and encounters Jan and Rainey again. Later, McCandless is forced to switch his traveling method back to hitchhiking after he is beaten by the railroad police. Not long after arriving, however, he starts feeling "corrupted" by modern civilization and decides to leave. Unable to hitchhike, he starts traveling on freight trains to Los Angeles, California. There, his kayak is lost in a dust storm and he crosses back into the United States on foot. McCandless then travels to the Colorado River and, though told by park rangers that he may not kayak down the river without a license, ignores their warnings and paddles downriver until he eventually arrives in Mexico. By September, McCandless stops in Carthage, South Dakota to work for a contract harvesting company owned by Wayne Westerberg (Vince Vaughn), but he is forced to leave after Westerberg is arrested for satellite piracy.
Rainey tells McCandless about his failing relationship with Jan, which McCandless would rekindle. He burns what remains of his dwindling cash supply and assumes a new name: "Alexander Supertramp." In Northern California, McCandless encounters a hippie couple named Jan Burres (Catherine Keener) and Rainey (Brian H. However, McCandless does not tell his parents Walt (William Hurt) and Billie McCandless (Marcia Gay Harden) nor his sister Carine (Jena Malone) what he is doing or where he is going, and refuses to keep in touch with them after his departure, leaving them to become increasingly anxious and eventually desperate.Īt Lake Mead, Arizona, McCandless' car is caught in a flash flood causing him to abandon it and begin hitchhiking instead. He donates nearly all of his entire savings of $24,000 to Oxfam and sets out on a cross-country drive in his well-used, but reliable Datsun to experience life in the wilderness. Shortly afterwards, McCandless rejects his conventional life by destroying all of his credit cards and identification documents. Two years earlier in May 1990, McCandless graduated with high honors from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 22 caliber rifle, reads books, and keeps a diary of his thoughts as he prepares for himself a new life in the wild.
At first, McCandless is content with the isolation, the beauty of nature around him, and the thrill of living off the land. In May 1992, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in a remote area just north of the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska and sets up a campsite in an abandoned bus. The plot summary here is told in a more chronological order. The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping back and forth between McCandless's time spent in Alaskan wilderness and his two-year travels leading up to his journey to Alaska.
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