Jim Gallien​
●​ Last person to see McCandless alive
●​ Picks him up
●​ Union electrician
●​ Thinks outsiders come unprepared
●​ Offers to help Alex
Ken Thompson, Gordon Samel, Ferdie Swanson​
●​ Ken is the owner of a Anchorage auto-body shop
●​ Gordon Samel works for Ken Thompson and has strong opinions
●​ They are friends with Ferdie Swanson who is a construction worker
●​ They all are hunters who went to stalk moose in Denali Park
●​ They don't follow the rules
Butch Killian​
●​ A coal miner who works as a medical technician for the fire department.
●​ Arrives at the bus soon after Gordon Samel has found McCandless's body.
Walt McCandless​
●​ Eminent aerospace engineer who worked for Nasa and Hughes aircraft but went into business for himself later.
Billie McCandless
●​ Married to Walt and had eight children together
●​ Generous