I feel like Chris was foolish and stupid for doing what he did. Wilderness survival is hard, even for the best trained people. Bear Grills does it, but his goal is to survive and be rescued. He was arrogant to believe that he could survive in one of the harshest places on earth with no formal training. I could probably survive for a while but then again, I did wilderness survival for 6 years. When Ralph Waldo Emerson did Walden, he knew what he was getting into, and he was in a more civilized area then Alaska. While Chris's death is tragic, it was easily preventable.