Penn, for whom making Into the Wild was a career and personal high point, visited Bus 142 twice over the years, once while researching the film and once for a 2007 episode of the Sundance TV show ...

The bus has long been a destination for pilgrims enamored with the book and subsequent movie “Into The Wild.” Some people have died making that journey to the bus. The Alaska Department of ...

According to TIME the five tourists were rescued from a make-shift camp built after they visited the infamous "Magic Bus" made famous by Jon Krakauer's 1996 best-seller Into the Wild.