The bus which has attained a status of somewhat of a urban legend status has been removed for public safety.
The bus, abandoned for 3 decades in Stampede Trail, Alaska, has been the holy grail for those who wanted to retrace the steps of the cultural phenomenon “Into the Wild’ book and movie series. However its current journey was not by its own tires and engines, but by the Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter which safely evacuated the legendary vehicle due to the decision jointly made with the Department of Natural Resources for public safety. The location was near Healy, Alaska, which was responsible for several deaths as well as numerous cases of injuries.
The permanent placement for the vehicle is yet to be confirmed, as the department is opening up all options of display and public availability.
The urban legend status was initiated by Jon Krakauer’s publication of his 1996 book “Into the Wild”, a movie adaptation pouring oil over fire a decade later in its release in 2007. Both cultural firmament details the life of the hermit and mysterious character Christopher McCandless, who grew up in a normal Washington suburb with an amicable and suppliant background.
However, he suddenly abandoned every firmament he had in civilization, as he went straight from his graduation from Emory University in 1990 to escape to the West in total secrecy to familiars.
Starting from April of 1992, he went to Alaska, where he started the Stampede Trail. The bus was at the trail, according to the accounts, and he chose to live there for three months, totally secluded from civilization. However, he failed to go across Teklanika River due to the melting season’s inundation of the waterflow. Somehow, he gave up all attempts from then on, where he would sustain himself for a month in the bus before finally passing on in August of 1992.
Since then, he and his bus have become a stuff of urban legend, more fittingly a “trailblazing legend”.
Visitors and daredevils across the world, inspired by his endeavor have dared to make the pathway, where the hazardous trail usually left them asunder and lost in their tracks. Some have died in the process, while others needed several public services to evacuate them.
Last February it was the Italian hikers on the Stampede Trail while it was a woman from Belarus who died while trying to cross the treacherous waters of the Teklanika with her husband.
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Replaced!