several State Troopers landed at the lake to check McCunn's campsite. They found his tent zipped shut and, upon cutting it open, discovered his corpse, emaciated and frozen, along with his 100-page diary. A coroner's inquest was held in July 1982. McCunn's father Donovan gave Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter Kris Capps access to the diary and two rolls of film. Excerpts from McCunn's diary were published in December 1982 by The San Antonio Light. See also Lillian Alling Christopher McCandless, subject of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild (1996), later adapted as a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn Lars Monsen, Norwegian adventurer and TV personality who once travelled by foot, canoe, and dog sled from the east coast of Canada to the west coast. The project took over two years to complete Richard Proenneke, who lived in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years Everett Ruess, who disappeared in the Utah wilderness in 1934 Timothy Treadwell Ed Wardle, who documented his solo wilderness adventure in the 2009 television series Alone in the Wild (2009) References Notes Sources 1947 births 1981 suicides 20th-century American photographers Artists from Alaska Nature photographers Artists from Anchorage, Alaska People from San Antonio American nomads Suicides by firearm in Alaska