A update on the real story from which the book "Into the Wild" is based on
It turns out now that it appears quite conclusive that Mr. Christopher Mcandless actually died primarily from eating poisonous seeds of a type of potatoe. What is interesting is that it was hardly known that these seeds were in fact poisenous. They actually do not cause death but rather paralysis. So, he became too weak to walk and thus living alone out there in the Alaskan wilderness, he eventually died of starvation. Some apparently see him as hero, others as an unbalanced fool. I think this revelation probably tends to shed a more honorable light on him. Here is link to article. Oh and Plant may know of this story since he lives in Alaska.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-tu ... dless-died