The real reason he died was actually because he mixed up two easily mistaken plants. One plant was good for you, and the other, when eaten enough of, was lethal. When Chris went into a drought of game, he subsisted off of plants. He ate a lot of the wild potato seed, which he mixed up with the wild pea seed. This killed him in the end. ?The main reason of Chris? expedition into the Alaskan interior was to see how far he could go, test his limits, and stand face to face with nature? (Krakauer
The real reason he died was actually because he mixed up two easily mistaken plants. One plant was good for you, and the other, when eaten enough of, was lethal. When Chris went into a drought of game, he subsisted off of plants. He ate a lot of the wild potato seed, which he mixed up with the wild pea seed. This killed him in the end. ?The main reason of Chris? expedition into the Alaskan interior was to see how far he could go, test his limits, and stand face to face with nature? (Krakauer