Chris was very unique in the sense that he would rather be alone in the wilderness than with other people. Chris’ love for the wilderness is enough to conquer his need for physical contact. “McCandless’s apparent sexual innocence, however, is a corollary of a personality type that our culture purports to admire, at least in the case of its more famous adherents. His ambivalence toward sex echoes that of celebrated others who embraced wilderness with single-minded passion Thoreau (who was a lifelong virgin)…His yearning, in a sense, was too powerful to be quenched by human contact. McCandless may have been tempted by the succor offered by women, but it paled beside the prospect of rough congress with nature, with the cosmos itself. And thus he was drawn north, to Alaska.” This quote on page 66 shows that Chris had an obvious passion for the outdoors that nothing else could quench, this quality in Chris is what makes him