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| == Plot == | == Plot == | ||
| ], the self-described ''"] voyager whose home is the road"'', died on Alaska’s ] in August of 1992. His death followed a two-year cross-country odyssey that took him from Atlanta to Arizona, down into Mexico, and from California’s Salton Sea to the streets of Las Vegas and the small town of Carthage, South Dakota, and countless places in between. In the spring of that year, the 24-year-old McCandless had made his way north to Alaska, where he lived in the woods north of ] for 113 days before his death by starvation. | ], the self-described ''"] voyager whose home is the road"'', died on Alaska’s ] in August of 1992. His death followed a two-year cross-country odyssey that took him from Atlanta to Arizona, down into Mexico, and from California’s Salton Sea to the streets of Las Vegas and the small town of Carthage, South Dakota, and countless places in between. In the spring of that year, the 24-year-old McCandless had made his way north to Alaska, where he lived in the woods north of ] for 113 days before his death by starvation. | ||
| == Filming == | |||
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| In May of 2006, Ron Lamothe started a journey to follow in Chris’s footsteps all the way to Fairbanks 142, the abandoned bus where he lived four months, and died. ''The Call of the Wild'' is a documentary film about this journey through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and Mexico. Ron Lamothe met and interviewed dozens of people about the McCandless story, either people who knew Chris or people who were linked to the story. | |||
| The film uncovers evidence that sheds new light on the mystery surrounding Chris’s death and contradicts ]’s interpretation made in his book, '']'', and in ] of the same name, directed by ] and based on Krakauer's book. | |||
| == External links == | == External links == | ||
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The Call of the Wild is a 2007 documentary by independent filmmaker Ron Lamothe.
Plot
Christopher McCandless, the self-described "aesthetic voyager whose home is the road", died on Alaska’s Stampede Trail in August of 1992. His death followed a two-year cross-country odyssey that took him from Atlanta to Arizona, down into Mexico, and from California’s Salton Sea to the streets of Las Vegas and the small town of Carthage, South Dakota, and countless places in between. In the spring of that year, the 24-year-old McCandless had made his way north to Alaska, where he lived in the woods north of Mt. McKinley for 113 days before his death by starvation.
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