In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a self-proclaimed adventurer — set out on a perilous journey into Alaska's harsh wilderness. Tragically, five months later, the 24-year-old was found dead, wrapped 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have learned that art holds the power to lend you the vehicle to not only contemplate personal history, but generational history. I like to think of art as a time machine. Certain stories, songs, ...

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