Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandless, a young idealist man who starved to death in Alaska in 1992, may sound romantic, but it’s a warning — the Alaskan wilderness kills.
While trying to access the abandoned bus where McCandless died, Veramika Maikamava, a 24-year-old newlywed woman from Belarus, drowned trying to cross the fast-flowing Teklanika River. She reportedly lost her footing and let go of the rope that stretches across the river to help hikers.
