You might not know this young man by his real name - the world somehow came to know him as 'Alexander Supertramp,' although we only really came to know him at all after his death. McCandless fancied himself as a new-age adventurer, challenging himself to live alone in the wild for as long as possible to see what it taught him about both himself and the human condition. Sadly, he didn't survive the experiment; he starved to death in the Stampede Pass in 1992. He was 24 years old.
McCandless has gone on to be viewed as something of a romantic hero by some - a man dedicated to reconnecting with nature and pursuing a simpler life. Others point out that walking out into barren territory without a map and with no survival training was tantamount to suicide, and turned out exactly as could have been predicted. This photo was developed from film on a camera found with his body.