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Diary reveals death trip in Alaskan wilderness
Carl McCunn, a photographer, died at 35 after eight and a half months stranded near a nameless lake northeast of Fairbanks. His 100 page diary details growing frostbite, hunger, wolves and ravens, a failed signal to a plane, and his final choice to shoot himself after writing a last note and signing his name.
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