WANDERLUST SYNDROME - When Wilderness Adventurers Lose Their Minds (Black Hoodie Alchemy ep91)

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have a very information-dense topic! Lots of notes, lots of twists and turns, tragedy and comedy, philosophy and practicality, and a combination of essentially every topic that this show tends to cover. It's wilderness adventure-time!
I'm joined once again by my cohorts Seedperson1 and Chris Fiato ‪@Odd_Combo‬and I share with them ten stories of men who experience what I can only describe as "wanderlust syndrome", which is throwing away all of their worldly possessions to hit the open expanse -- whether it be the Alaskan wilderness, the desert, the mountains, the beach, or elsewhere. Sometimes this syndrome turns out for the best, in the case of people like John Muir, and sometimes in the case of Chris McCandless of 'Into the Wild' fame or Timothy Treadwell of Werner Herzog's tragic documentary 'The Grizzly Man', it can end in the most horrifying ways imaginable.
Here's the list of the names we discuss in the episode:
#ChrisMcCandless - a transcendentalist adventurer who foolishly died in the Alaskan wilderness, famous from John Krakauer's book 'Into the Wild.'
#EverettRuess - a young American adventurer from the early 20th century that embodied genuine poetic wanderlust, and who mysteriously disappeared in the Utah deserts.
#CarlMcCunn - a wilderness photographer who was lost in the Alaskan wilderness during a series of very unfortunate events.
#JohnWaterman - a celebrated and very eccentric alpinist and mountaineer who mysteriously disappeared in the Denali Mountain Range.
#GeneRosellini - another eccentric and philosphical man, like a mild-mannered Ted Kaczynksi, who attempted to live like a stone-age man in the wilderness of Alaska for over a decade before committing suicide.
#TimothyTreadwell - a very curious man who lived in the Alaskan wilderness amongst bears for many seasons before staying too late into the fall, only to be eaten alive on camera. He eventually became the focus of #WernerHerzog 's documentary #TheGrizzlyMan'.
#AugustEngelhardt - a strange German man who lived and died on the beach eating only coconuts, claiming that they were the fruit of the gods, only to slowly starve to death in the public eye.
#NathanCampbell - a man who went out searching for the alleged #DarkPyramid of #Alaska in 2020 and was never seen again.
#JohnMuir - an ecologist, philosopher, adventurer, and the man on this list that embodies the truest definition of the genuine poetic wanderlust, because he is the only man on this list that doesn't have a tragic ending to his story.
We also bring up to lesser degrees: #AronRalston of the '127 Hours' fame, #TedKaczynski the Unabomber himself, and #CarlPanzram the serial-killing train-riding hobo from the early 20th century.
Lots to mull over this week! We hope you dig it.
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