Into the wild

Alex says: "I´ll paraphrase Thoreau here: Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth". Alex Supertramp went to Alaska, a longing for lonleyness, truth and ultimate freedom leaded his way. Growing up with violence and lies within the family his desire for another way of living rose. But this might just be the obvious explanation. He was looking for something he couldn´t find in society, "society man". He cut his ID, his cards, everything that could identify him or make his experience easier. He never called his family, his parents had to realise at some point that Alex simply didn´t want to be found, didn´t want any contact, maybe decided not to come back ever. He was heading to Alaska, Alaska, not the city Alaska. "Just be out there in it, you know? In the wild". He hitchhiked most of the time, worked at some point, tasted various ways of living far from richness in the sense of money-richness,lived in the desert for some time, canued illegally to Mexico and had some troubles to go back to the States. But always kept his dream, he never let somebody catch him. He had this idea in his mind, "Your just there in that moment, in that special place and time". Aside from his longing, when Alex finally made his way to Alaska, his dream was confronted with reality. It´s not that easy to shoot an elk in the summer and prepare the meat fast enough, so the flies don´t place their eggs. Or to shoot a reindeer with a calf, not matter how big the hunger is. The truth he finally found was this: Happiness is only real when shared. When he decided to head back from Alaska the river he had crossed in the winter had grown huge and wild, he wasn´t able to pass it. Two weeks after he had died moose hunters found hid dead body.