In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to a charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, and burned all of the cash in his wallet.
Four months later his remains were found in a blue sleeping bag in an isolated bus far out into the wilderness. Amongst his remains were five rolls of exposed film, an SOS note, and a diary recording the man's final weeks in 113 entries written across the field guide to edible plants. Among his possesions was found the book, Doctor Zhivago. In the margins he wrote, "NATURE/PURITY" and "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED". He circled passages such as "refuge in nature" and "sometimes one wishes to escape the meaningless dullness of human eloquence."
One of his last acts was to take a picture of himself standing near the bus under the Alaska sky, one hand holding his final note towards the camera lens, and the other raised in farewell.

The autopsy revealed no broken bones or massive internal injuries. The probable cause of death was starvation.

April 27th, 1992
Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got there. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild.

Alex

S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAINTO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANKS, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST???

Assignment:
As a small group or as an individual, use this story as a starting point to design a website to contain images, video and sound which explores in fiction and/or fact aspects of this curious event. The site can be multiple linked pages. You can use thumbnails, rollovers, Flash, image maps, etc. You can use Quicktime, RealPlayer, Windows Media, live, real or http streaming.

Consider point of view:
Told from his p.o.v. through diaries;
Told from the perspective of others who knew him;
Told from someone else looking at developed pictures