Krakauer's 1996 account of McCandless' life and death inspired both the 2007 award-winning film by Sean Penn and the album by ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent opinion essay offered wide-ranging criticism of the University of Alaska Museum of the North for creating an exhibit for Bus 142 — made famous by Christopher McCandless and John Krakauer’s ...

Long before Christopher McCandless became a symbol, a warning and a lingering question, he was simply a 24-year-old with a journal, a camera and a hard, lonely idea about freedom. In the summer of ...

In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a self-proclaimed adventurer embarked on a dangerous odyssey into the wilds of Alaska. Sadly, five months on, the 24-year-old was discovered dead, his body in a ...

Chris McCandless is a cautionary tale. Chris McCandless was a rich kid who went off and died in the Alaskan wilderness because he was suicidal, spoiled, stupid or some combination of all three. His ...