I could never get a straight answer on where they took the bus. Then i saw this video and im glad that they didnt scrap it.

Seeing this suspended under a chinook for transport to the museum was pretty neat.

Thanks for sharing your story, very interesting that u met Chris and was able to visit the bus in a much safer environment. Although I'm sure it would have been really cool to actually visit the bus at it's original location, I'm so glad that they decided to preserve the bus at the museum.

Alaska can be a tough teacher for sure, lesson #1 is RESPECT. Beautifully deceiving on the surface, and brutally unforgiving if lesson #1 is not practiced. But this Great Land has allowed me 41 years of wonder, and that has been immensely humbling. But sure my bones will rest here when I cross The Bar.

I think the Government missed the point here, people wont be trekking across the world to see the bus in a museum like they would if it was still in the wild. People trekked there to the bus to walk in Chris's footsteps, to get a glimpse of what he felt living there, to experience the solitude and nature, and to pay respects in their own way. Going to see the bus in a museum is like going to see a coffin in a funeral home. The bus should have been left to return to rust and dust, if the bus was so popular as a tourist destination for hikers and adventurers why not have just made the route safer instead. I am sure some will still travel to the (removed bus) bus site, but certainly not as many as before. But I guess, instead they can go visit a coffin.

Thanks so much for posting this. I will be sure to visit when I get that chance to go there. I was figuring it would be crushed and sold for scrap iron and also hoping that wouldn’t happen. As for people getting hurt (cause of the bus) I don’t think thats going to stop people from going there. It might actually be a good thing for the bus though. It has went extremely down hill since the picture of Chris seated beside it. Chris is like a neutral hero for me. Yes, he did some odd things, but overall he lived and most cant say that. In another video (right before it was extracted) there was masses of trash around it and more new bullet holes in it. So sad that people have such little respect for an iconic landmark. Maybe it will have peace the rest of its days and people can see it in a preserved state. It wasn’t going to last long with all that was going on.

Thank you very much 👍🌹💗

Very well presented and filmed. I have mixed thoughts about Bus 142 being plucked out of the wild to ultimately become a museum exhibit, solely due to the fact that this is where Chris McCandless’s young life came to what must have been a painful end as is the case with starvation. This fact alone makes the bus somewhat “sacred” in my opinion, irrespective of one’s opinions regarding Chris McCandless’s preparedness for his great adventure. May he continue to Rest in Peace.

I agree with you, he was a adventures young man who was unprepared, but to think of him as a poacher would be like calling a native American irresponsible for killing one Buffalo to eat on and cloth himself with, as compared to the white man who killed a 1000 Buffalo a day for what, because they were easy sport? My father told me if I killed a small animal and ate it the same day completely, that was not poaching but surviving. I have eaten rattlesnakes and jack rabbits in New Mexico for months when I was digging for gold, back in the 60’s. I always carried a bag of Pinto beans, potatoes & onions. My wood fire always had a pot on it. I lived in a old bus, but was not a hippie, had a Jeep but was not a overlander. I Remember going through Moab when it was a mining town not a tourist trap. P.S. I had a good teacher, my father was a POW In a Japanese prison camp coal mine for 42 months and lived to tell about it on 1/4 cup of rice and all the cockroaches, Earth worms and any thing he could steal.

Thanks for this.

Alexander Supertramp was here !

this is a great video good job

SOMETIMES, the fantasy in our minds just doesn't play out when we have to face the brutality of the REAL world.

I am glad. I was wondering what happened to it

I’ve just posted a video where we found the uk magic bus. We lost ourselves for the night. Even though it was nowhere near as remote as this it made us all feel connected to it. 👍

I’ve always been curious if the busses windows were missing when it was used as a shelter. I’d imagine it would have been a pretty harsh shelter without the windows.

that bus is a 1940s International KB series truck most likely a KB6 or KB8

Surprised the wild life didn't eat the body.

Arghhh...I missed the bus, no more adventure to stampede road.

Wise decision by the state. The original location would continue to cost lives and expensive rescues.

I dont understand why people worship people that die. This guy did what he wanted to do. He didnt do it so people would worship him. To me everyone except his family should have stayed away an let his soul or what might have been left of him there be alone as he wanted.

How did that bus get there originally?

They're lucky they got to it before I did because I would have taken that bus and I would have restored it completely and put it back on the road

Illegal hunting? You know the world is bad when you can’t live off the land, the only thing I see as illegal is needing the governments Permission to hunt.

The entire story is a tragedy. In search for truth he lived a lie and died alone. They should have sent the bus to a junk yard.