Comment on Anon reads Into the Wild
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI think he was stranded because of a flooded river though? From memory there was a reason he couldn’t just walk out.
Comment on Anon reads Into the Wild
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI think he was stranded because of a flooded river though? From memory there was a reason he couldn’t just walk out.
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
The reason was him refusing to bring a map, which would have shown a bridge over the river less than a mile away.
And not scouting out his environment either, or even trying a detour along the river, or improvising a raft…
Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
stuff you learn in boy scouts when your 12. yeah… probably the best lesson I learned in boy scouts is that if you don’t want to die on a camping trip, you have enough supplies for twice the time, enough clothes for twice the time, a map, a compass, a good understanding of where ever road out is, and a plan to bail out of your camp site for every hour of the day, and when medical problem 1 happens, you bail, and you bail fast, no one needs to die on a camping trip. I camped through a blizzard, I dug shelters in snow, I did a lot of crazy stuff, but I was never dangerously hungry, thirsty, injured, or in shock, and the tired old guys who only half wanted to do camp outs were the best, because they knew exactly how far was too far every time.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, that’ll do it.
IronBird@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
i’m too lazy to look into, but did he actually starve starve to death or was there some medical complication? it takes a long time to starve to death
mech@feddit.org 20 hours ago
His emaciated decomposing body was found by hunters. Time of death couldn’t be determined accurately.
The last 4 entries in his diary were just a date and a dash (-).
He had a bag of plant seeds with him that contained a toxin which causes paralysis.
His diary contained entries documenting his dwindling food reserves and unsuccessful hunting attempts.
ChexMax@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, I read that hypothetically consuming the plant (which resembled a nontoxic look alike) could have made it so he was too weak to scavenge what he needed to survive. He could have survived otherwise. He was certainly gambling with his life being out there alone, but I read the claims of him being totally unprepared were exaggerated.