Christopher McCandless, adopting the name Alexander Supertramp, sought freedom by abandoning societal anchors and venturing into Alaska's wilderness in 1992. He turned an abandoned bus into his ...

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 ...

The end of a successful hunt from back in the day, with the Magic Bus in the background. (Tyler Freel /) This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Earlier this month, the Alaska National Guard ...

It's been nearly two decades since Into the Wild was published, Jon Krakauer's book about 24-year-old Chris McCandless who cut himself off from his family, renounced money and possessions, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe the adventuring Chris McCandless wasn't quite so ignorant and ill-planned after all. The cause of death of the self-styled wilderness explorer made famous by Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild ...