Is this info on the back of my sheath accurate? Came from a Bear Grylls knife back in 2012/2013.

Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.

It's about Christopher McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp. Graduates college, leaves the East Coast without telling his family, or anyone else for that matter. Travels the country for two years by foot, rail, and thumb. (Thumb=hitchhiking, for those of you reaching for that Comment Button. "How do you travel by thumb dumbass lol!?") Finally, achieves his dream of going into the Wilds of Alaska and living off the land and just being in those special places in time. Finds an old green and white bus marked 142. Names it The Magic Bus. Lives in the Wild for 113 days and dies in the bus. He left behind like five rolls of film that showed his travels, people he met, and most importantly, the previous months in Alaska. The developed film is quite something. I wont spoil anything further if anyone wants to read it or watch the movie. Even if you don't particularly care for Chris McCandless, Sean Penn directs the movie and he and it are next-level awesome. The musical score is awesome. But the best part next to Sean Penn directing it is that Eddie Vedder wrote and recorded a bunch of brand new songs just for the movie. It is spectacular work. Simply spectacular.

All that to say this: In the book Into The Wild, author Jon Krakauer tells of a few other people who went to the Wilds of Alaska to live off of the land so to speak. One was a guy who moved to Alaska and got a cabin way out next to some remote lake. A bush pilot flew him and his supplies out to the cabin and dropped him off. The guy had thought of everything he would need to survive in Alaska on his own.

Everything except telling someone to come back and get him at some point.

He was just waiting and waiting for someone to come. But no one was supposed to. The one who took him out lake was just a ride out. He wasn't hired to bring the man back.

No one came for weeks and weeks I guess. Finally, a plane flew over, circled the camp and lake a few times and saw the man holding one arm up in the air and waving his hand. Then the man, convinced that the plane saw him and was radioing for help, walked away into the cabin to start packing up his things to go.

The pilot saw the one arm motion as "Nothing to see here Mister. Keep on flying, I'm going inside".

Satisfied the man was ok, the pilot flew to wherever he was originally headed.

No one ever came. The man finally went out on his own terms as some like to say. Shotgun I believe.

So, the person above was absolutely 100% correct.

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