The moment is haunting because it reframes his entire odyssey. For much of the film, Chris rejects family, comfort, and ...

In Into The Wild, this line comes toward the emotional heart of Christopher McCandless’s journey. After running from society, ...

Christopher McCandless is a character so fantastic he'd almost have to be a figment of one's imagination. Surprisingly, Sean Penn, director of "Into the Wild," didn't dream him up. In August 1992, ...

UA Museum of the North Director Pat Druckenmiller checks out Bus 142 last week with Colin Howard, left, and Aaron Warkinton, right, who work for Pennsylvania-based B.R. Howard Conservation. (Tim Ellis ...

In 1990, a young man named Chris McCandless graduated from Emory University. During his time there, Chris excelled both in academics and athletics. Immediately following his graduation, he disappeared ...

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On a chilly October morning at a storage facility in central Fairbanks, Museum of the North curator Angela Linn pulled a ...

The Teklanika River grows and moves swiftly as it flows north. Eventually the Alaska Range relents and gives way to the boggy interior of Alaska. On the other side of the last set of mountains is ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was an impulse. That’s the way Sean Penn describes it. It was 1990, during the era of another ...