A notorious bus appears to be heading to a new home at a Fairbanks museum after being evicted from the Alaskan interior to deter others from making dangerous and fatal walks to make a stopover at the site where a young man documented his disappearance in 1992.
A famous bus appears to head to a new home at a Fairbanks museum after being evicted from the Alaskan interior to deter others from making dangerous and fatal walks to make a stopover at the site where a young man documented his disappearance in 1992.
The State Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that it intends to negotiate with the University of Alaska’s Northern Museum to demonstrate the bus, which it popularized through the e-book “Into the Wild” and a film of the same call and stolen from its location. denali National Park and Reserve last month.
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“Among the many expressions of interest on the bus, the most productive proposal of the Museum of the North of the AU met the situations that we had established in the MNR to ensure that this ancient and cultural object will be kept in a position where the public can completely noote it. Fix still and respect completely, and without the spectrum of profit,” The Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige said in a statement.
The bus has a beacon for those looking to re-endo the footsteps of Christopher McCandless, who boarded the bus in 1992. The 24-year-old Virginia boy starved to death when he was unable to return because of the grown Teklanika River. He kept a diary of his dreadful experience, which was discovered when his frame was found.
McCandless’s story has become known with Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book,” “Into the Wild,” followed nine years later by director Sean Penn’s film of the same name.
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Over the years, others around the world have traveled to the bus, about 40 kilometres from the city of Healy, to pay their respects to McCandless.
Two women drowned in the Teklanika River during those bus visits, one from Switzerland in 2010 and the other from Belarus nine years later. There have been 15 other search and rescue missions since 2009, state officials said, and added five Italian tourists who needed help last winter. One had a severe freeze.
The bus draw is too complicated for state officials, who last month had the Alaska Army National Guard remove the bus with a helicopter as a component of an educational mission.
The old bus in the city of Fairbanks is called Bus 142 or Magic Bus. It was then used to structure personnel who structured a road in the area. It was abandoned in 1961 and has become a haven for those who use the interior to recreate or hunt.
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The branch has won dozens of tips for the use of the bus from people, museums and establishments in the country, with plans to preserve, exhibit, monetize it or commemorate it, Feige said.
The branch made a decision to the university’s proposal, which had several advantages. It is just one of 3 official state filings and the only one in the Fairbanks domain that can settle for and retain state-owned old items. The museum also has staff to restore, organize and display the bus.
This proposal also allows the Department of Natural Resources to retain ownership of the bus and long-term uses, adding if and where to lend it.
“I who give Bus 142 a long-term home in Fairbanks at the UA North Museum can help maintain and tell the stories of all those people,” Feige said. “You can honor all lives and dreams, as well as bus-related deaths and penalties, and do so with respect and dignity.”
The ministry hopes to release the final documents in the coming months.