"The riveting story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, solo canoed thousands of miles of American rivers--and then in 2016 disappeared off the coast of North Carolina"--

Director Ron Lamothe visits important locations in the life of Chris "Alex" McCandless, a young man who was an "aesthetic voyager." McCandless was found dead at the age of 24 in an abandoned bus on a remote Alaska trail. Lamothe finds himself meeting Sean Penn over and over again as he is also making a movie about McCandless. The film touches on themes relevant to the director: Generation X, wilderness and the American imagination, rites of passage,...

Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris's extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world's most tantalizing places largely alone and unsupported. And after almost fifty years of wilderness travel, J.R., as he's known, has plenty of tales to tell! His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down to earth, friendly style. For J.R. it all began in 1966 when, as a young New Yorker, he impulsively...