The sister of Chris McCandless, the hiker whose two-year odyssey across America and into the Alaskan wilderness was immortalized in the bestselling book "Into the Wild," says his expedition was ...

Carine McCandless speaks tonight at the Boulder Book Store, and PBS is scheduled to air a new documentary about Chris McCandless' story on Tuesday, Nov. 25, called "Return to the Wild." Read an ...

You may have seen the 2007 movie, or even read the 1997 book, but the real story of the man behind ‘Into The Wild’ and his untimely death in the Alaskan Wilderness is a lot more twisted and ...

Chris McCandless was a smart, wealthy kid who read smart books that told him our world is ill — made sick by industry, money, materialism and our disconnect from nature. He became convinced that ...

By 1996, he had fleshed out McCandless’s life and death in a book—the famous bestseller Into the Wild. Eleven years after that it was revisited again, as a beautiful feature film.

Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” portrays the journey of a young teenager named Chris McCandless who made national headlines when he was found alone and dead in the wilderness. Before his death in 1992, ...

Here’s a summer book list, though I consider none beach-reading fare. Hearing the podcast I realized I had never read “Into the Wild” as a book.

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, ...

In the years following McCandless’ death and the “Into the Wild” book and movie, two hikers died in the river trying to visit Bus 142, which had been hauled into the wilderness in the 1950s ...

The attention that the bus received was almost entirely due to the tragedy of Chris McCandless, whose story was publicized in the 1997 nonfiction book, “Into the Wild,” which was also made into a film ...

In order to ready to bus for its big unveiling at University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN), workers have spent months combing over Bus 142. They haven't been working to take it back to its ...