Twenty years in the past, a younger American hiker named Chris McCandless, the completed son of profitable center class mother and father, was discovered lifeless in an deserted bus within the Alaskan wilderness and have become the topic of the best-selling e-book and film “Into the Wild.” Now, PBS retraces Chris McCandless’ steps to attempt to piece collectively why he severed all ties together with his previous, burnt or gave away all his cash, modified his identify and headed into the Denali Wilderness. McCandless' personal letters, launched for the primary time, in addition to new and stunning interviews, probe the thriller that also lies on the coronary heart of a narrative that has turn out to be a part of the American literary canon and compels so many to this present day.
