Christopher McCandless

"Starring in the movie, scripted and directed by Penn, are Emile Hirsch as McCandless and Vince Vaughn as Wayne Westerberg, former owner of the grain elevator in Carthage." "Westerberg, who now lives at Madison, is an adviser to Penn." http://www.mccr.net/mccr/Articles/Hollywood_...

Each time he left South Dakota, McCandless would leave behind photos and journals. McCandless often sent postcards to Westerberg, who would post them on a bulletin board in the town of Carthage “because everyone knew him,” Westerberg said. http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20071214/COMMUNITY_NEWS/7...

Twenty or so miles due west of Healy, not far from the boundary of Denali National Park, a derelict bus—a blue and white, 1940s-vintage International from the Fairbanks City Transit System—rusts incongruously in the fireweed beside the Stampede Trail. Many winters ago the bus was fitted with bedding...

“…..The summer after high school, Chris set out on the first of his adventures, a cross-country trek of conventional proportions. He drove south in a yellow Datsun, then west to Texas and California. He returned via Nevada, wide-eyed at the casinos, the show-girls, the three-dollar steaks. He had hi...

From the Chip Brown article: “…….His adventure in Alaska capped a series of epic journeys that began in 1986, the year he graduated from W.T. Woodson High School, in the Washington D.C., suburb of Fairfax, Virginia. But in some sense he had been rehearsing for the road all his life. At two, he once ...

Nice interview with Jan Burres: In November of 1991, he wrote a letter to Burres to tell her that he was in Bullhead City, Ariz. He was working at a McDonald’s there, trying to save money to fund what he called his “Alaskan odyssey.” But the name on the envelope wasn’t familiar to her. “He had signe...

I was in Alaska August 10 through the 18, 2010 and knew nothing about the bus or Chris until my wife started asking a waitress about the stamped road. My wife had just read an article about a 29 year old swiss woman that had drown trying to cross the Teklanika River and was asking what was going on....

FAIRBANKS — The fact that a 29-year-old Swiss woman drowned Saturday while attempting to cross the Teklanika River on the Stampede Trail doesn’t surprise Jon Nierenberg. What surprises him is that it didn’t happen to someone a lot sooner. Nierenberg, who owns a lodge four miles from the end of Stamp...