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 ...

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 ...

“I have found what is needed for happiness…” – 🎬 Into the Wild (2007) This line comes from Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), reflecting near the end of his journey into the Alaskan wilderness.

On a chilly October morning at a storage facility in central Fairbanks, Museum of the North curator Angela Linn pulled a giant tarp off of Bus 142 — a rust-covered green-and-white city bus from the ...

“But isn’t Sean Penn a self-important jerk?” asked my cousin when I told him how much I liked Into the Wild, which Penn scripted and directed. I replied that Penn does indeed have that reputation, ...

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 ...

Christopher McCandless, adopting the name Alexander Supertramp, sought freedom by abandoning societal anchors and venturing ...

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