The book’s success led to a film adaptation by Sean Penn and an album by Eddie Vedder that solidified McCandless' legacy as a polarizing icon of modern adventuring The year was 1992. After having ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How would you cope if you got lost in the bush? How long could you survive if you had to rely on your own skills? Would you drink your own wee if it was the only option? They're questions few of us ...

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 ...

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 ...