University of Alaska Museum of the North Director Pat Druckenmiller checks out Bus 142 last week with Colin Howard, left, and Aaron Warkinton, right, who work for Pennsylvania-based B.R. Howard ...

UA Museum of the North Director Pat Druckenmiller checks out Bus 142 last week with Colin Howard, left, and Aaron Warkinton, right, who work for Pennsylvania-based B.R. Howard Conservation.

Originally dragged into the wilderness for a road-building camp along the Stampede Trail, the 1940’s Fairbanks public transit bus is where young adventurer Christopher McCandless lived and ...

It was the site of the 1992 death of 24-year-old Virginian Christopher McCandless, who lived for 114 days at the bus before perishing, a story depicted in Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book, “Into the ...

UPDATE: The Into the Wild bus will likely find a home at the University of Alaska Fairbank’s Museum of the North. The Department of Natural Resources issued a press release on Thursday.saying it ...

In order to ready to bus for its big unveiling at University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN), workers have spent months combing over Bus 142. They haven't been working to take it back to its ...

The famous bus from Into The Wild that hiker Chris McCandless lived and died in has been removed from the Alaskan wilderness. However, the location of the bus is still marked on google maps. The ...

At least two hikers died and over a dozen more rescued while in pursuit of the 1940s-era bus where Christopher McCandless, the subject of Into the Wild, died of starvation in 1992; McCandless ...

The bus became a beacon for those wishing to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless, who hiked to the bus in 1992.The 24-year-old Virginia man died from starvation when he couldn’t hike ...

Bus 142 spent 60 years sitting in the Alaskan backcountry and saw thousands of visitors before it ended up at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks. Now, a team of conservators, students, and ...

The Alaskan bus that Chris McCandless died on in 1992 has been airlifted from the site. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 28°F. Friday, January 10th 2025 Daily News e-Edition.

The Dept. of Natural Resources’ Corri Feige said that the Museum of the North could preserve the bus and avoid profiteering, since it is the place where young philosopher Christopher McCandless ...