The abandoned vehicle where Chris McCandless died teaches us a lot about modern Alaska. Ever since Outside published Jon Krakauer’s feature about the young, adventurous drifter who attempted to live ...

The abandoned bus is where Chris McCandless died of starvation in 1992. The abandoned bus where American adventurer Chris McCandless died almost 30 years ago has been airlifted away from its longtime ...

On a chilly October morning at a storage facility in central Fairbanks, Museum of the North curator Angela Linn pulled a giant tarp off of Bus 142 — a rust-covered green-and-white city bus from the ...

Despite being a minor economic engine that mostly did little harm, the Denali Borough, and more specifically Healy, a census-designated place, slowly turned on Bus 142 with an odd degree of vengeance.

This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Earlier this month, the Alaska National Guard used a Chinook helicopter to lift and carry out “The Bus.” If you’re not familiar, this is the bus that ...

The pilgrims never stopped coming for the bus, even as some of them died along the way. Adventure seekers have for years retraced the steps of Chris McCandless, who detailed in a journal the tragic ...

The story of Chris McCandless, as told by Jon Krakauer in “Into the Wild,” has become an iconic and revered modern classic. Not only is Krakauer’s writing powerful and his investigations thorough, ...