I had to laugh at Seans comments about the rangers, there may be a couple like that but not many i'd say.
His seeds did not kill him
Well it's sort of a mixed bag, the movie portrays him as eating the poisonous look alike of wild potato root but the book goes into the detail to disprove this, the trouble is although he was managing to find food he was burning more calories then he was consuming and after loosing a ton of weight the illness that his moldy seeds gave him could easily be shaken off by someone in fine health but in his already weakened state it drained him to the point of not being able to function which led to his death.
Besides his escape route I guess there were also hunting cabins just 6 miles away that were stocked with food if he had known they were there.
I have to say sorry also, I feel like I have spun this thread way off topic lol
