Be careful when you fist pump

"Alaskan hunters know the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into think strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. But McCandless, in his naiveté, relied on the advice of hunters he'd consulted in South Dakota who advised him to smoke his meat, not an easy task under the circumstances."

This passage was taken from John Krakauers Into the Wild. Upon reading about how Chris lost the majority of the meat due to the fact that he did not know how to cook it properly, it reminded me of a man Krakauer compared chris too. It was Carl McCunn, an amateur photographer, who got  man to fly him out into the woods where he would live for the summer. The problem was McCunn did not arrange for a flight back. Running out of food at the end of the summer and growing hungrier with every day, McCunn was in serious need of some help. He heard a plane come over head and waved a bright orange sleeping bag. The plane spotted McCunn but when he raised on arm in the air in celebration, the pilot assumed he was alright and left. McCunn later looked on the back of his gun license where it said two arms up if you are in distress and one if you are alright. Both men had the chance at salvation. McCunn a trip out of the wilderness and McCandless more than enough meat to last him for many meals. Even though McCandless died from the mould in the way he stored his berries, this would have strengthened him enough so that he could have made it out of the wild alive. The men were so wrapped up in the idealistic view of the wild that they missed it's harsh reality.