Explanation:
A hiker in Alaska, a man estimated to be in his late twenties or thirties, is found dead of starvation in September 1992. The story is covered in the Anchorage Daily News and picked up by the New York Times. Jim Gallien, the last person to see McCandless alive, thinks the dead hiker is McCandless, as does Wayne Westerberg. Christopher McCandless's oldest half-brother, Sam, is questioned by the Fairbanks, Alaska, police, who show him a photo of a gaunt man with a beard and long hair — the opposite of the shorn, clean-shaven sibling that Sam remembers. As the chapter ends, he prepares to tell his father and stepmother the heartbreaking news.
