When McCandless turned up dead in Alaska lots of people ended by saying that he was mentally disturbed. In his mind from him is was glorifying but people thought is was a foolish and pointless death. Krakaur give more examples because they were kinda like him and headed to alaska too. He was a pilgrim but the thing was that he was never prepared for his journey he was unexperienced, he just woke up one day and decided to go in the wilderness and head to Alaska. To experience the wild and go offside of people. These men have done these to prove them self and self satisfaction.