If you liked "Into Thin Air" this book is worth a try, but it is not nearly as cohesive, spectacular, or absorbing. Krakauer feels the need to reiterate the dramatic far too frequently... "McCandless was a smart kid, but not smart enough for the tough Alaskan wilderness." Most of the book is filler, stories culled about other failed solo expeditions, and even a self-aggrandizing chapter about the author's own ascent of an Alaskan peak.