A National Guard Chinook helicopter lifts Fairbanks Bus 142, made
famous by the book and film "Into the Wild," from the remote Stampede
Trail outside Denali National Park in Alaska on June 18, 2020.Sgt. Seth LaCount
/ Alaska Army National Guard via AFP - Getty Images
The
bus has long attracted adventurers to an area without cellphone service and
marked by unpredictable weather and at-times swollen rivers. Some have had to
be rescued or have died. Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book and
movie, died there in 1992.
The
rescue earlier this year of five Italian tourists and death last year of a
woman from Belarus intensified calls from local officials for the bus, about 25
miles from the Parks Highway, to be removed……
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