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THE LAST FRONTIER

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more”

LORD GORGE GORDON BYRON

The landscape synthesis of a journey. The search for inspiration. The desire to find and relive the same feeling that led Christopher McCandless to travel the extreme lands of Alaska.
His story and his path, up to the last stage in the "Magic Bus", told some delicate and intense photographs. Images that represent a window on freedom.

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
(Chris McCandless)

Christopher McCandless is an American adventurer who died from starvation and possibly poisoning, at age 24, while camping alone on a remote trail in Alaska. McCandless hitchhiked through Canada and reached Fairbanks via the Alaska Highway on April 25, 1992. His original plan was to hike westward to the Bering Sea, but he ended up sheltering in an abandoned bus on the little-traveled trail. He lived by killing small animals (and one moose) and gathering roots and berries.

McCandless would have returned to civilization in early July 1992 had he been able to recross the Teklanika, but the river he had easily forded two months earlier was by then swollen with snowmelt. Forced to continue on a substandard diet, he weakened and died in mid-August.
His body, which weighed only 67 pounds (30.4 kg), was discovered by hunters on September 6.

CREDITS

Photographer: Mauro Turatti

Video Editor: Paolo Formenti

Color Editing: Mattia Giani – Loris Macchi

CREDITS BOOK

Title: Ritorno alle terre selvagge

Author: Francesco Frank Lotta

Publisher: Sperling & Kupfer