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Outside3y
The ’Into the Wild’ Bus Is Gone… for Now
In June, the museum flew in two professional conservators from B.R. Howard and Associates, an art restoration firm based in Pennsylvania, to assess Bus 142’s condition and come up with a plan ...
Outside1y
The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can It Hold Up in a Museum?
Stampede Road, which leads to the spot where Bus 142 rested for decades (Photo ... its mandate is to draw from art, archaeology, natural science, and other areas to tell stories about the interior ...
Alaska Dispatch News4y
‘She needs a lot of work’: Museum of the North staff begins work on ‘Into the Wild’ bus
FAIRBANKS — Preliminary work began last week on a project to create a museum exhibit featuring the old bus ... Bus 142 before the conservators head back to Pennsylvania, where their art- and ...
Alaska Public Media4y
UAF museum starts work on 'Into the Wild' bus exhibit
UA Museum of the North Director Pat Druckenmiller checks out Bus 142 last week ... condition of Bus 142 before the conservators head back to Pennsylvania, where their art and artifact conservation ...
Hindustan Times4y
Bus 142 from ‘Into the Wild’ finds a home at Fairbanks museum
An Alaska Army National Guard UH 60 Blackhawk helicopter hovers near "Bus 142", made famous by the "Into the Wild" book and movie, after it was deposted by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on the ground ...
Alaska Dispatch News3y
Bus 142 finds its final resting place
One bestselling book and blockbuster movie (both titled “Into the Wild”) later, Fairbanks City Transit System No. 142 became perhaps the most famous bus of all time. Now, the snub-nosed hulk ...
Jalopnik1y
Here's How Museum Workers Took The 'Into The Wild' Bus Out Of The Wild
For many, it was Bus 142. Why this random bus that's rusting away in the Alaskan wilderness, I hear you ask? Well, it's the ancient International Harvester bus that Christopher McCandless called ...
Sydney Morning Herald2mon
This infamous bus had a grisly history. Then tourists made things worse
Bus 142, better known as the “Magic Bus” or “Into the Wild” bus, was where hiker Christopher McCandless died.Credit: UAF/Amy Chaussé I’m at the University of Alaska Museum of the North ...
Outdoor Life2y
Long Before the ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Became a Tourist Deathtrap, It Was My Dad’s Hunting Camp
In 2020, a helicopter lifted Fairbanks City Transit Bus No. 142 out of the bush and it was brought about 100 miles back here to Fairbanks. For nearly 30 years, the now-infamous bus had been a magnet ...
CNN4y
The tragic allure of Alaska’s ‘Into the Wild’ bus
Presumably, this leafy clearing in the middle of nowhere would be Bus 142’s final stop. That’s where the bus sat in the spring of 1992 when 24-year-old nomadic free-spirit Christopher ...
ABC News5y
'Into the Wild' bus airlifted out of Alaskan wilderness due to concerns over tourist safety
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, near Healy, Alaska ...