The abandoned bus made famous by the book “Into the Wild,” and where Christopher McCandless died in 1992, has been moved to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for preservation work. The bus has long drawn people wanting to trace McCandless's steps.
The bus was moved to the university’s engineering facility last week while it’s being prepared for outdoor display at the Museum of the North,The abandoned Fairbanks city bus became a shelter for hunters and others using the backcountry near Denali National Park and Preserve, but it became a beacon for those wishing to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless, who hiked to the bus in 1992.
McCandless’ ordeal was chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book “Into the Wild,” followed later by director Sean Penn’s movie of the same name. People from all over the world made the bus a focal point and tried to retrace his steps.The state of Alaska removed the bus located about 25 miles from the town of Healy after two women — one from Switzerland and the other from Belarus — drowned on homages to the bus.
“It’s OK that people have this huge range of feeling about the bus,” Linn said. “That means they’re thinking about it. They have opinions about it, and that means they’re engaged with history, which is a really important thing for those of us who are in the business of preserving history.” Holes cut in the roof and floor of the bus to allow a helicopter to ferry it out of the woods must be repaired, Linn said, and the bus is riddled with bullet holes.
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