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Chris McCandless - a cautionary tale about trail planning and preparation (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago

Literal meters. He was across a river and a short walk from safety but it was through heavy snow and hypothermia inducing water. But still he didn't even knew that was there because he was completely off about where he thought he was. I mean, he died in a bus because a road was close enough for a bus to get stranded there. That place was a proposed trail or something.