Chris' Fatal Mistakes; Arrogance?

In the 8th chapter of Into the Wild, the author Jon Krakuar, chose to speak about all the people who wrote in to “Outsider” magazine about Alaska. They talk about how common it is for people who are not from the area to come in and try to go explore the places that locals know are dangerous and not bring the right gear. The book also accounts on how many warnings that McCandless had received from people on his way to the site where he was dropped off that he did not have the adequate gear. Why did he go anyway? Why did he think that he was the exception to the rule? He had spent only three months traveling, in southern United States and up the California coast, which is reasonably mild climate compared. His parents even stated in the latter part of the book that he thought he could do anything and most of the time made seemingly impossible things happen. This ultimately was his a large component in his fatal character flaw, which almost every hero has in the hero’s journey, his over-confidence in himself.