The Magic Bus of Chris McCandless is known as a Danger, Is Airlifted from it.
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There is an abandoned 1946 International Harvester K-5 parked along Alaska's Stampede Trail.Christopher McCandless's body was discovered inside the bus in 1992.McCandless's story, recounted by Jon Krakauer in Outside in 1993, and also in his 1997 book, Into the Wild, as well as in a film adaptation in 2007, has become a modern myth.Pilgrims who refer to themselves as "pilgrims" visit the bus every year despite being woefully ill-prepared for the wilderness.In the summer of 2013, at least a dozen people were lost, hurt, or stranded by rushing rivers crossing the trail.In Diana Saverin's "The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem," you can read more about the pilgrims.
The clearing where the bus is located is well-worn by visitors who hike the trail and camp at the site.
Supplies for future pilgrims and other items have accumulated inside the bus over the years.
Many messages, inscriptions, musings, diary entries are left by visitors."Chris... all I could think of to give you that would really be a part of me," reads the tin.
McCandless's body was found in the back of the bus in 1992.
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours" is a quote from Henry David Thoreau.