“When you look at McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn't even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic and inconsiderate. First, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in nature. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he had had a good map, he would have gotten out of this difficult situation by taking one of the many routes that could have been successful” (2). “Trusting Samel and Thompson, veteran Alaska hunters who killed numerous elk and caribou between them, I duly pointed out McCandless's error in the article I wrote for Outside, thus confirming the The opinion of countless readers that McCandless was ridiculously unprepared, that he had no business venturing into any wilderness, much less the wilderness of the Last Frontier. Not only did McCandless die because he was stupid, an Alaska correspondent observed, but "the scope of his so-called adventure was so small as to resemble a pathetic squat in a wrecked bus a few miles from Healy, bagging jays and squirrels, mistaking a caribou for a moose (quite difficult to do).... One word for the guy: incompetent”