Into the Wild
Chapter 17
What did hunters do to prevent trespassing on their turf? how would this had helped chris?
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What did hunters do to prevent trespassing on their turf? how would this had helped chris?
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Some local hunters, it turns out, had cut the chain, ridden the basket across, and secured it to the far side in order to make it harder for outsiders to cross the Teklanika and trespass on their turf. When McCandless tried to walk out of the bush one year ago the previous week, the basket was in the same place it is now, on his side of the canyon. If he’d known about it, crossing the Teklanika to safety would have been a trivial matter. Because he had no topographic map, however, he had no way of conceiving that salvation was so close at hand.
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