Independence and isolation explored on the French countryside.

Twenty years ago, a young American hiker named Chris McCandless, the accomplished son of successful middle class parents, was ...

The real problem, though, is that Chris McCandless was given a lot. In most of the books he read — “Walden,” “Call of the Wild,” “War and Peace” — men reached transcendence through struggle, something ...

Carine McCandless ... her brother Chris to disappear into the Alaskan wilderness on an ill-fated adventure that was later chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book Into the Wild and in ...