‘Into the Wild’ movie’s famous Bus removed from Alaska

4 years ago

The abandoned Fairbanks city bus that Christopher McCandless lived and died in has been removed from the Alaska backcountry.

Photos that went viral on Facebook on Thursday show the bus being hauled out by a Chinook helicopter and then loaded onto a long flatbed trailer for transport to an unknown location.

Alaska Public Radio reports that the bus was removed in a collaboration involving the state’s departments of transportation, natural resources, and military and veterans’ affairs, at the request of the Denali Borough.

In recent years, the bus once occupied by Christopher McCandles had attracted tourists from all over the world-growing number of whom had to be rescued in their attempt to reach the remote location.

McCandless occupied the bus, located outside the town of Healy near the boundary of Denali National Park, during the spring and summer of 1992.

He died there in mid-August, and his story was made famous by Jon Krakauer—first in a now-classic Outside story, “Death of an Innocent,” and then in his bestselling 1996 book, Into the Wild.