"Although McCandless was enough of a realist to know that hunting game was an unavoidable component of living off the land, he had always been ambivalent about killing animals. That ambivalence turned to remorse soon after he shot the moose. It was relatively small, weighing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred pounds, but it nevertheless amounted to a huge quantity of meat. Believing that it was morally indefensible to waste any part of an animal that has been shot for food. McCandless spent six days toiling to preserve what he had killed before it spoiled."
Chapter 16. Page 166. Paragraph 2.
Krakauer respects McCandless for trying to save all the meat he can. Even though he didn't think it was right, McCandless shot a moose in order to survive in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer knows that McCandless was some what of a realist, because it went against his morals to kill animals, but he wasn't going to just let himself die. He felt bad that the moose had been killed but he had to do what he had to do. Spending six days on trying to preserve meat shows that McCandless had a lot of remorse for the kill and that he would do anything he could so that none of the meat was wasted. Krakauer knew that McCandless was dedicated to anything he strongly believed in and would do whatever it took to stick to his morals.
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