Krakauer's 1996 account of McCandless' life and death inspired both the 2007 award-winning film by Sean Penn and the album by Eddie Vedder of the same name The year was 1992. After having lived alone ...

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HEALY, Alaska – The book and movie “Into the Wild” profiled Christopher McCandless, a young man who left his family to connect with nature in Alaska in the 1990s. The old bus he lived in before he ...

In 2006, a film crew was in Astoria to film “Into the Wild,” directed by Sean Penn, the haunting story of hitchhiker/wanderer Christopher McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp), who made his way into ...

To the editor: I’ll admit to mixed feelings about the Museum of the North restoring the bus in which Christopher McCandless took his final breath in 1992. Like it or not, his story is enmeshed in ...

The year was 1992. After having lived alone for months in an abandoned Fairbanks City Transit System bus along the Stampede Trail outside of Healy, Alaska, 24-year-old Chris McCandless was growing ...