Into the Wild
2007 American biographical film by Sean Penn
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| September 24 2020 | The Museum of The North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks announced that Magic Bus 142 would become their permanent exhibit and would be restored for an outdoor display. |
| June 18 2020 | The abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail was removed by a US Army Chinook helicopter due to public safety concerns. |
| June 18 2020 | The bus where Chris McCandless died was removed from its location in the Alaskan wilderness by the Alaska National Guard to prevent tourists from endangering themselves. |
| April 2020 | A stranded Brazilian was rescued near the McCandless bus site. |
| February 2020 | Five Italians were rescued near the bus site, with one suffering from severe frostbite. |
| 2019 | A newlywed Belarusian woman drowned in the swollen Teklanika River while trying to visit the McCandless bus site. |
| 2019 | Slate magazine lists Into the Wild as one of the 50 best nonfiction works of the past quarter-century. |
| March 2015 | Jon Krakauer co-authored a scientific analysis of the Hedysarum alpinum seeds McCandless ate, concluding that the high levels of L-canavanine likely contributed to his death. |
| 2010 | A Swiss woman drowned while attempting to cross the Teklanika River to reach the abandoned bus where Christopher McCandless died. |
| 2010 | The Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Foundation released 'Back to the Wild: The Photographs & Writings of Christopher McCandless', a book and DVD featuring previously unseen personal materials, with an introduction by Jon Krakauer and narration by Hal Holbrook. |
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