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

In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a self-proclaimed adventurer — set out on a perilous journey into Alaska's harsh wilderness. Tragically, five months later, the 24-year-old was found dead, wrapped in ...

Sean Penn waited a good decade before adapting Jon Krakauer’s book about Chris McCandless, who graduated college in 1990, then disappeared into the American unknown, re-emerging as Alexander ...

To the editor: I’ll admit to mixed feelings about the Museum of the North restoring the bus in which Christopher McCandless took his final breath in 1992. Like it or not, his story is enmeshed in ...

Reading the bevy of freak-out tweets about cranes dangling, power outages, and blown-off building facades during hashtag Sandy brought us to a simple conclusion: Let’s get the eff out of cities and go ...

HEALY, Alaska – The book and movie “Into the Wild” profiled Christopher McCandless, a young man who left his family to connect with nature in Alaska in the 1990s. The old bus he lived in before he ...

I have learned that art holds the power to lend you the vehicle to not only contemplate personal history, but generational history. I like to think of art as a time machine. Certain stories, songs, ...