@LiberalJerseyman Maybe in your eyes and your dreams. But in some of us others. He is a great adventure that guides us on a endless path. Through difficulties and happiness in life. For me myself he is like the northern star. A guideline that shows me the path to walk.
@LiberalJerseyman Try to read something about him. He knowed alot about the wildness and what was coming to him. We people have to stop judge others before we know all the fact. And he lived by his dream, like you might dream of something else. I pray for that I sometimes get the guts and spirit to do what he did. And with that I do "not" mean that I will copy what he did. I will instead live my dream and do what I burn for.
@Fobbla If he had known anything about the wilderness he would have known how to live off the land. I'm sure it's possible to live in the wilderness on your own, but not by eating rabbits and berries.
I dont think most of you understand, "Get busy living or Get busy Dying". There is a hikers saying, "HYOH" or "Hike your own hike" If you still dont understand you probably never will.
I enjoyed the book by Krakauer. I admire Chris McCandless for living HIS life and seeing that life's beauty cannot be bought . I could say I'm disappointed of his lack of preparedness on his final trip BUT...I can relate. When I was 24, I left Ohio and explored the West and did some crazy, unsafe trips. Now I'm 40 and glad I did what I did.
[ to himself while pretending to drive the bus ] Hey, listen, old man. Now, don't psychoanalyze me, all right? Shut up. I'm taking you out to where we're going. Where you going? I told you. We're going nowhere!
I found this bus quite inferior in quality to that of say a Greyhound or a Blue Bird bus. It has a shoddy paint job for starters, no headlights, very bad handling due to the tires this thing runs on, lousy MPG, and lest we forget.. a measly V-0 engine. No cylinders! No engine block, no camshaft, no pistons.. nothing. So unless you are looking to go Flinstones status with this bus.. I suggest buying elsewhere.
what the fuck are you people arguing about? this guy had a destination, got to it, had some fun probably,,,was nice and quiet there too, unlike the noise i see in print here. good for you guy ! btw,,,,what year and make is that bus?
"Be Prepared" is the motto of the Boy Scouts of America. It seems Chris McCanless wasn't prepared and didn't respect the harshness of the Alaskan wilderness.
@MattBeckstrom if you can call it "wilderness" The bus is a short hike off he busiest highway in Alaska, not even wild by Alaska standards. he was an arrogant dreamer
McCandless followed not just the call of the wild, but the call of his own heart. He refused to conform and spent two years on a fantastic adventure crisscrossing America. I bet half the sods who degrade him don't even have the courage to spend a night sleeping out in the woods with nothing but a tent or less for shelter.
@SryderNintyThree so your hero did a short hike off the road to a bus and then starved to death? While hundreds of others have been to the bus and NOT died? Where he went was not even wilderness by Alaska standards. Remember that by "doing what he wanted" he caused lifelong intense suffering for his entire family.
He was a poor deluded kid who died a shitty prevengtable death.
@bartyfarslar so what you are saying is he should have stayed right beside his family and done nothing his entire life? you are ridculous and should shut the fuck up. He was not deluded, he saw what he wanted in life and went for it, and if his parents would have been more of parents than dictators he might have stayed and done something else. All these people that have gone back to the bus and survived didn't WALK around North America for the last 2 years! Get your facts straight.
@SryderNintyThree No I am not saying that. I am saying he should not have been such an arrogant asshole as to cause his family pain by underestimating the Alaskan backcountry. You think he is some kind of unique individual, we get dozens of these dreamy losers up here every year, and every year one or two dies.
And he did not WALK actross America he hitchiked and rode rails. As did I and millions of other people did at that age. Big deal.
@bartyfarslar He is an arrogant dreamer....sure he is....and you're mad because you aren't, let me guess, you now have to get to work in a suit or something close to that and be there at a certain time and you're mad about it...because you wish you could be free as him...
@SryderNintyThree And I suppose you KNOW his parents personally so you can judge them? Not only did they have to endure losing their son, now they have to be judged by thousands of immature cretins who think it is heroic to starve to death in a bus a days walk from civilization?
@bartyfarslar Isn't your stance "much ado 'bout nothing", as Shakespeare said so well. Ok, so Chris made some foolish decisions that ultimately cost him his life. Yes. No one could argue this point with you. However, so do a lot of other people. My 27 yr. old (now dead) neighbor thought he'd run down to the store real quick on his bike without wearing a helmet. Foolish. Point being, Chris died doing what he loved, exploring the world around him. As for his parent's - very sad, but that's life.
you don´t have any respect right??!!!! no dude, that´s no the way I think.... sorry but there is too much behind this bus .... well, it´s your video I know but...
@VoodooMami obviously an intolerant ignorant twat. He did nothing to warrant being hated. People are just jealous, he was brave to take such an adventure as most people wouldn't have the guts, he was fit enough to do it and he was very intelligent. Hence getting his education but not just that you can tell from his writing and the literature he read that he wasn't a fool, he was open minded. Brave enough to ignore bigots and stepped away from social expectations to be himself and not a sheep
@iliveforthemaga lol, who isn't naive or are you claiming to be wise about every problem or subject in the world. However, what was naive about livign how you wanted, rather than being a sheep and just conforming to societies expectations. So many idiots can't cope with people who decide to be different or themselvs, it takes courage, in fact his journey takes more courage than most will ever muster. His writings and the literature he reads shows him to be wiser than many.
@iliveforthemaga What was naive about y comments, or do you accuse everyone of being naive. I just pointed out the truth everyone is naive to an extent, you can be knoweledgeable, experience or wise in everything you do. You criticise me for making assumptions while you are making assumtions about me, obviously a naive hypocrite. Assuming Chris has learned something I can't even accept; there are so many ignorant assumptions in that comment I can't believe I'm even bothering to respond.
you can be knowledgeable, and wise, however technically if Chris gave society (represented by the author of the edible flower) a bigger chance instead of constantly belittling it, he'd still be alive.
yes, i did criticize you. because i was not the one looking on youtube comments for people so i could assume harshly against them, did i? i made my opinion, and a factual at that, so imagine my position.
@368maw and finally, because i had time taken away from my hands being called a hypocrite, please be realistic and accept the fact that this retarded argument was started by no one else but you and your ego.
just because i said three words doesn't mean you had to go on a complete troll rampage to prove a point that i already knew.
i read his literature down and up, and it doesn't take a genius to know he had faults. he put his family in distress for it, and if he was alive, he'd do something.
@sourapplealtoid you idiot shouldn't jump to ignorant conclusions. It has been reported that the hand tram was damaged at the time he was there which rendered it inoperable. Which is why some investigations believed he was trapped, because with the heavy flowing waters he had no safe route out that he was aware of, including no use of the hand tram
So you're main objective was to reach the bus because that;s what Chris did and then just go home?? Wow what a wasted trip and piece of your life. Do something you wanna do, live your life for you. Stay at that bus, live it like Chris did. Do it man dont be afraid
@scottkarge if your read the nasty comments on youtube, you get the feeling, that is part of what he was running from. He never harmed no one. He lived his dream and unfortunatly died doing so. Whats there to hate about him i wonder.
I admire Chris, but he is romanticized far too much. Even hitchhiking isn't an easy thing to do, or to find places to sleep, etc. If you want to go into the Alaskan wilderness, bring a compass at least. And any good survivalist knows that if you walk along side a river, that's your best bet to civilization or help.
@kaitlinan i agree but the reason he didnt bring a compass or a map was because he wanted to go somewhere not on a map. There is no place not on a map anymore so he was going to make a map of the area himself he did not want amap or compass for this reason. Alot of people say he died like an idiot.... Well ya know what he lived his dream..died happy (look at his last self portrait) and he would have survived if he didnt eat a molded sead thatbecame piosonis due to mold anyone could have donethat
@p6a9u1l42 I agree with you completely but actually your taking your evidence from the film. he actually died of starvation not from mold. yet the cause of the starvation was his game was no balancing out the amount of energy he would use each day and it eventually caught up with him, but everyone dies sometimes and he's one of the few i have heard of who actually truthfully died happy.
@irishlad1420 He did die of starvation but i got my evidence from the book it said he died from mold. The movie said he confused one plant with another and died from that but truth is they all could be true because there not sure why he died from starvation.
@p6a9u1l42 the book is not a valid source atall, the film is a better source (scarcism), but an investigation into it said none of his food supply had mold and autopsy had said there was no signs of poisonous in mccandless's body.. The simplest and most Obvious reason he starved is just like the film "sort of" showed, the game he was hunting wasn't meeting his energy needs, after all he was living on badgers and birds ect.
@p6a9u1l42 correct, the book was an earlier source that was when they believed it was a possible that he died from poisoning but the film later reveals it was a theory that they later didn't accept. He died of starvation as you say but even living off game alone wouldn't have kept him from starvation because he would no doubt have been suffering from malnutrition too, living off just rice and game would have left him with some deficiencies
i admire chris. i really do. most people don't have the guts to do this. i understand that it was his thoughts, his minds, his feelings, his ideal of life and i respect that. However, after going through all of those experiences from his life, the last sentence he wrote was "Happiness is only real when shared." it's a shame. really, because it doesn't take much to know that. so i guess, it all depends on yourself and your background to find peace within you. don't be like him. be yourself
@moiseman ya and he lived out his dream... CAN YOU SAY THAT... can you say that you lived your dream? did you see his last self portrate? He knew he was going to die in a few days and hewas all smiles you want to know why.... because he did what he wanted to do his whole life + lived his dream... your dream is probably ten times easier than living off the land in the wild and you cant even come close to grabbing it. when your on your death bed you will be the one who died like a complete idiot
@MountRushCollymore Well as a parent I want my child to pursue his dreams, but I hope his dreams do not take his life at such an early age...im sure you can understand that?
Seems to be a good trail or a bus would not be there. How come Alex Supertramp did not know about the road out? Sumpin dont add up. I aint saying he wasnt a unique person and he apparently did some crazy shit, but when he decided to go back to town, where was that road?
The road always was there, but when Alex Supertramp (Chris McCandless) decided to walk out, the river he had to cross was too high. as a result, he was trapped.
@slayslay23 how are you related to him? just because u have the same last name? if thats the case then that means i'm related to James Franco and the Spanish dictator Fransisco Franco.
@dirtbiker4lfe that bus has been sitting there for at least 50 years, not to mention has been abandoned for at least 50 years. i don't think there is any chance it will ever run again. but that's my uneducated opinion.
UPDATE, Chris was NOT suicidal! In his bag, on a hidden pocket, he had a few bucks and some IDs, meaning that at some point, he wanted to go back home.
If you want more information, watch the Indie film "The call of the wild" by Ron Lamothe!
@smellytoilet1996 It was put there for miners or the road being constructed in the 60's. Multiple buses were out there, but this one was left for hunters. That's what I read anyway
For those who want to find more about the true story behind Chris McCandless, here's a link to the write-up of the documentary The Call of the Wild by its maker, which states all facts:
tifilms[dot]com/wild/call_debunked.htm
I consider The Call of the Wild to be even better than Into the Wild by the way, it's way more truthful to the story which allows it to have an even more powerful message.
Chris was certainly an inspirational person, his view on life ignites a desire that's inside all of us to experience life to the fullest before we die. It's too bad though that Into The Wild and the book, while still great, don't show some very important facts. For example, he didn't die of poisoning but simply of starvation, and he did have money on him as well as several ID's AND a MAP!
It's all explained in the documentary called The Call of the Wild, made simultaneously with Into the Wild.
I shure the guy that died in that bus wouldnt mind people going in it and exporing it i think he was the type of guy that would think it's a free world...i know i wouldnt care i'd think where showing some amount of respect just by going their remebering a complete strangers!
I found myself on a lot of his letters, this guy understood how happy you can find yourself out there ... But he understood one thing a bit too late : happiness only real if shared ! So SHARE it guys ! Get the hell out of ur computer :D That's how you can thank Chris today !
Es muy bonito, desde luego, pero pienso que Chris no hubiera ido en quad al bus. El buscaba caminos no transitados previamente. Seguir los pasos que Cris siguio no te hace estar en contacto con la naturaleza, sino seguir otro camino mas.
has anyone tried to make this a monument other than his parents?......if not that sucks, if everyone thought like him the world wouldnt be such a bad place, everyone needs to know about that brave man
I'm sorry but I just have to say something Redemmaw: Wanting to honor someone is fine, but in my opinion it's one thing to visit the bus and pay your respects, that's all well and good. But to want to "sleep where he slept and breathe the air he breathed"...come on. You would be sleeping where the man DIED, where he suffered a harsh death, be it by his own hand or not. He died the way he wanted to I'm sure. That's like sleeping on someone's grave. Pitch a tent or something. Just a thought.
and people that think he was stupid.....these people such as yourself are blinded by "logical thinking".
yes it would make sense to take a phone, a car, a huge supply of food, portable radio etc, but he wasnt taking a holiday!
thats what people such as yourself dont understand, he didnt want his trip to be easy, he wanted to taste the struggles of nature, to go into the wild....
@eudnes ok, sorry to pick on you but i'm confused. first off, chris' whole motive was freedom, or something along those lines. exploration, adventure. he always crossed boundaries. this guy isn't disrespecting the place chris died. it is/was a public bus. he isn't spitting on the bed, the dog's not shitting on it... so isn't this a little contradictory? i bet somebody died on the place you're sitting right now. so? plenty of fucking people have gone in that bus. what about them?
@eudnes ok, sorry to pick on you but i'm confused. first off, chris' whole motive was freedom, or something along those lines. exploration, adventure. he always crossed boundaries. this guy isn't disrespecting the place chris died. it is/was a public bus. he isn't spitting on the bed, the dog's not shitting on it... so isn't this a little contradictory? i bet somebody died on the place you're sitting right now. so? plenty of fucking people have gone in that bus. what about them?
@scientologyRfail Chris McCandless lived in the bus for four months while on a soul-searching, Alaskan adventure. if you've seen or heard about the book and popular movie "Into The Wild" its his story. I would recommend watching it. its amazing...life changing, if you will.
cool place but that bed... had a dead person in :(
owenCRG44 5 days ago
i love to live there
a217andy 5 days ago
That thing have another gear?
DobermansRock 5 days ago
jesus why dont people like this guy it was his money and he spent on charity he made another persons life better
GoNmanne11 1 week ago
@englerdm respect the dead brah and he was trying to find happiness
GoNmanne11 1 week ago
Christopher McCandless was an idiot.
LiberalJerseyman 1 week ago
@LiberalJerseyman Maybe in your eyes and your dreams. But in some of us others. He is a great adventure that guides us on a endless path. Through difficulties and happiness in life. For me myself he is like the northern star. A guideline that shows me the path to walk.
Fobbla 1 week ago
@Fobbla Because he wandered off into the wilderness with no knowledge whatsoever and practically committed suicide? Nice role model.
LiberalJerseyman 1 week ago
@LiberalJerseyman Try to read something about him. He knowed alot about the wildness and what was coming to him. We people have to stop judge others before we know all the fact. And he lived by his dream, like you might dream of something else. I pray for that I sometimes get the guts and spirit to do what he did. And with that I do "not" mean that I will copy what he did. I will instead live my dream and do what I burn for.
Fobbla 1 week ago
@Fobbla If he had known anything about the wilderness he would have known how to live off the land. I'm sure it's possible to live in the wilderness on your own, but not by eating rabbits and berries.
LiberalJerseyman 1 week ago
nice sound of the quad
darkangel65641 2 weeks ago
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iTzBRYANT113 2 weeks ago
he died being happy with nature, the human kind belongs to the wild life no the high towers in the big city.
RitvarLegend 2 weeks ago
Impious.
Doemieh 2 weeks ago
dont read to much into Hollywwod people
jarrod1685 2 weeks ago
if i could turn back time and atleast see him !!
vimalrockzz 3 weeks ago
is that the actual one where alex stayed? and, did they film the movie with this one?
AyePalTube 4 weeks ago
@AyePalTube They've built a copy of it.
Doemieh 2 weeks ago
i think he died happy, having achieved bliss and a wonderful journey.
SuperFirstComment 1 month ago
Dommage d'y aller en voiture, pour moi ce voyage aurais étais une sorte de pèlerinage (bien que je ne connaisse rien à la vie de Chris McCandless).
Sa aurais étais une sorte d'hommage à l'homme que "je connais" (celui décrit dans Into The Wild ).
Mroverguy 2 months ago 3
I dont think most of you understand, "Get busy living or Get busy Dying". There is a hikers saying, "HYOH" or "Hike your own hike" If you still dont understand you probably never will.
BearUrArms 2 months ago 2
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How many people have been murdered in the bus?
BJrandom 2 months ago
if i had a wish before i die , that would be dying near The Bus. Christopher McCandless is my hero. He did something which i cant explain ....
BLACKTRIADS 2 months ago
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megen28 3 months ago
I enjoyed the book by Krakauer. I admire Chris McCandless for living HIS life and seeing that life's beauty cannot be bought . I could say I'm disappointed of his lack of preparedness on his final trip BUT...I can relate. When I was 24, I left Ohio and explored the West and did some crazy, unsafe trips. Now I'm 40 and glad I did what I did.
skynug 3 months ago 7
I watch this with the sound muted. Much better.......
Supertramp1966 3 months ago
@Supertramp1966 I agree. I'm also curious why he started a fire just to "turn around and go home".
skynug 3 months ago
It's not about him dying or running away. It's about his search for himself and living as himself - being authentic - that captures people's hearts.
silverakisame 3 months ago
[ to himself while pretending to drive the bus ] Hey, listen, old man. Now, don't psychoanalyze me, all right? Shut up. I'm taking you out to where we're going. Where you going? I told you. We're going nowhere!
~ Into The Wild ~
TheAvaga 3 months ago 5
in to the wild...=)
toni89gkz 3 months ago
I found this bus quite inferior in quality to that of say a Greyhound or a Blue Bird bus. It has a shoddy paint job for starters, no headlights, very bad handling due to the tires this thing runs on, lousy MPG, and lest we forget.. a measly V-0 engine. No cylinders! No engine block, no camshaft, no pistons.. nothing. So unless you are looking to go Flinstones status with this bus.. I suggest buying elsewhere.
mrlebowski562 3 months ago 2
@mrlebowski562 you're kidding....right?
goldenmonkey330 3 months ago
woah weird as
mumbomum 3 months ago
boooooooring nothingness
flonach 3 months ago
1:50 bullet whole in right winsheild?
XxOMGitsJAKExX 3 months ago
what the fuck are you people arguing about? this guy had a destination, got to it, had some fun probably,,,was nice and quiet there too, unlike the noise i see in print here. good for you guy ! btw,,,,what year and make is that bus?
bfs1888 3 months ago
can we get an old start cold start?
KrazyKuul111 4 months ago
"Be Prepared" is the motto of the Boy Scouts of America. It seems Chris McCanless wasn't prepared and didn't respect the harshness of the Alaskan wilderness.
MattBeckstrom 4 months ago
@MattBeckstrom if you can call it "wilderness" The bus is a short hike off he busiest highway in Alaska, not even wild by Alaska standards. he was an arrogant dreamer
bartyfarslar 4 months ago
So his bus is still out there?
MisterBeaucoup 4 months ago
McCandless followed not just the call of the wild, but the call of his own heart. He refused to conform and spent two years on a fantastic adventure crisscrossing America. I bet half the sods who degrade him don't even have the courage to spend a night sleeping out in the woods with nothing but a tent or less for shelter.
amadeus5889 4 months ago
Christopher McCandaless is my hero...he is the one human being who said fuck it and did what he wanted, not many people have the balls to do that.
SryderNintyThree 4 months ago 6
@SryderNintyThree so your hero did a short hike off the road to a bus and then starved to death? While hundreds of others have been to the bus and NOT died? Where he went was not even wilderness by Alaska standards. Remember that by "doing what he wanted" he caused lifelong intense suffering for his entire family.
He was a poor deluded kid who died a shitty prevengtable death.
bartyfarslar 4 months ago
@bartyfarslar so what you are saying is he should have stayed right beside his family and done nothing his entire life? you are ridculous and should shut the fuck up. He was not deluded, he saw what he wanted in life and went for it, and if his parents would have been more of parents than dictators he might have stayed and done something else. All these people that have gone back to the bus and survived didn't WALK around North America for the last 2 years! Get your facts straight.
SryderNintyThree 4 months ago
@SryderNintyThree No I am not saying that. I am saying he should not have been such an arrogant asshole as to cause his family pain by underestimating the Alaskan backcountry. You think he is some kind of unique individual, we get dozens of these dreamy losers up here every year, and every year one or two dies.
And he did not WALK actross America he hitchiked and rode rails. As did I and millions of other people did at that age. Big deal.
bartyfarslar 4 months ago
@bartyfarslar He is an arrogant dreamer....sure he is....and you're mad because you aren't, let me guess, you now have to get to work in a suit or something close to that and be there at a certain time and you're mad about it...because you wish you could be free as him...
NunexxShadowZ 4 months ago
@SryderNintyThree And I suppose you KNOW his parents personally so you can judge them? Not only did they have to endure losing their son, now they have to be judged by thousands of immature cretins who think it is heroic to starve to death in a bus a days walk from civilization?
bartyfarslar 4 months ago
@bartyfarslar Isn't your stance "much ado 'bout nothing", as Shakespeare said so well. Ok, so Chris made some foolish decisions that ultimately cost him his life. Yes. No one could argue this point with you. However, so do a lot of other people. My 27 yr. old (now dead) neighbor thought he'd run down to the store real quick on his bike without wearing a helmet. Foolish. Point being, Chris died doing what he loved, exploring the world around him. As for his parent's - very sad, but that's life.
Supertramp1966 3 months ago 14
...Wtf? When I pause the videos still play.
xweert711 4 months ago
Am i the only one thinking keeping that bus warm would've been a hassle? I mean, lacking insulation and stuff?
Rhinoch8 4 months ago
skip to 1:21
phobiazzzero 4 months ago
I think what he did was great but he didnt respect nature.He thought mother earth would take care of him.That idea bit him in the ass.
jond765 5 months ago
So 240p...we meet again.
kickodude 5 months ago 2
you don´t have any respect right??!!!! no dude, that´s no the way I think.... sorry but there is too much behind this bus .... well, it´s your video I know but...
Estherchi1 5 months ago
R.I.P Christopher !!!!
capilea 5 months ago 4
Dude was an idiot. We hate him here in Healy.
VoodooMami 5 months ago
@VoodooMami obviously an intolerant ignorant twat. He did nothing to warrant being hated. People are just jealous, he was brave to take such an adventure as most people wouldn't have the guts, he was fit enough to do it and he was very intelligent. Hence getting his education but not just that you can tell from his writing and the literature he read that he wasn't a fool, he was open minded. Brave enough to ignore bigots and stepped away from social expectations to be himself and not a sheep
368maw 5 months ago
chris was naive.
iliveforthemaga 5 months ago
@iliveforthemaga lol, who isn't naive or are you claiming to be wise about every problem or subject in the world. However, what was naive about livign how you wanted, rather than being a sheep and just conforming to societies expectations. So many idiots can't cope with people who decide to be different or themselvs, it takes courage, in fact his journey takes more courage than most will ever muster. His writings and the literature he reads shows him to be wiser than many.
368maw 5 months ago
@368maw have i ever said that chris was wrong?
you're an idiot. perhaps a bit naive as well.
he learned something you can't even accept from the way you assume.
he accepted the fact to 'just being okay' is the best thing in the world, and that you don't need to look for happiness to be happy...or die for it.
you're barking up the wrong tree, perhaps you should learn from him instead of assuming your higher place of understanding to chris' literature.
iliveforthemaga 5 months ago
@iliveforthemaga What was naive about y comments, or do you accuse everyone of being naive. I just pointed out the truth everyone is naive to an extent, you can be knoweledgeable, experience or wise in everything you do. You criticise me for making assumptions while you are making assumtions about me, obviously a naive hypocrite. Assuming Chris has learned something I can't even accept; there are so many ignorant assumptions in that comment I can't believe I'm even bothering to respond.
368maw 5 months ago
@368maw even to this minute, you fail to denial.
everyone is naive, agreed.
you can be knowledgeable, and wise, however technically if Chris gave society (represented by the author of the edible flower) a bigger chance instead of constantly belittling it, he'd still be alive.
yes, i did criticize you. because i was not the one looking on youtube comments for people so i could assume harshly against them, did i? i made my opinion, and a factual at that, so imagine my position.
iliveforthemaga 5 months ago
@368maw and finally, because i had time taken away from my hands being called a hypocrite, please be realistic and accept the fact that this retarded argument was started by no one else but you and your ego.
just because i said three words doesn't mean you had to go on a complete troll rampage to prove a point that i already knew.
i read his literature down and up, and it doesn't take a genius to know he had faults. he put his family in distress for it, and if he was alive, he'd do something.
iliveforthemaga 5 months ago
arrive with car...incredible experience!!! Supertramp style!
MovimentoModerno1987 5 months ago
Is this the real "magic bus" as in the movie? Is the bus still there, i wont to visit that place one day..
capilea 5 months ago
Idiot should have known that there was a hand tram like 1/4 mile down the river. LOL
sourapplealtoid 5 months ago
@sourapplealtoid you idiot shouldn't jump to ignorant conclusions. It has been reported that the hand tram was damaged at the time he was there which rendered it inoperable. Which is why some investigations believed he was trapped, because with the heavy flowing waters he had no safe route out that he was aware of, including no use of the hand tram
368maw 5 months ago
thank you my friend for bringing this more to home within my spirit in remembering "Supertramp" He is hiking through the heavens now...
djmolecular 5 months ago
weird to imagine someone dying on that bed, kinda cool/creepy
RngrOnTheEdge 5 months ago
I want to take a trip up sometime summer of 2012 as my graduation trip, is it still possible to reach it?
L012D 5 months ago
whhy dont you read the paper to see when it was abandond
yoimdansta23 5 months ago
What the fuck am i watching. You arrived at some buss in a wasteland? Okay thats.... uhh, Fun?
BloXboX37 6 months ago
@BloXboX37
Go watch the movie Into The Wild, than come back
iAmLucaz 6 months ago 3
@BloXboX37 It's where christopher mccandless lived... You should really watch the movie Into the Wild, one of the best ever for me
akkappul 5 months ago
So you're main objective was to reach the bus because that;s what Chris did and then just go home?? Wow what a wasted trip and piece of your life. Do something you wanna do, live your life for you. Stay at that bus, live it like Chris did. Do it man dont be afraid
justinvsky1 6 months ago
some may see Chris as an over-ambitious, stupid kid. I see a hero that made a mistake
scottkarge 6 months ago 2
@scottkarge if your read the nasty comments on youtube, you get the feeling, that is part of what he was running from. He never harmed no one. He lived his dream and unfortunatly died doing so. Whats there to hate about him i wonder.
siegfriedfreud1984 5 months ago 3
Skip to 1.20.
chickenlover01 6 months ago 47
i think thats horrible!
KillMyAnus 6 months ago
eerie.
itsamandaN 6 months ago
Someone was just there the fire was smoking...Or did you start a fire?
Braeden123698745 6 months ago
Someone explain to me whats so damn important about this bus?
xXRoZaRXx 7 months ago
@xXRoZaRXx read into the wild or search chris mcandless he died on this bus
cjleeways 6 months ago
@xXRoZaRXx and watch the movie into the wild :)
anderenwelt 6 months ago
@xXRoZaRXx= Some dude died there, and they made a movie about it. Sean Penn's Into The Wild, starring Emile Hirsch.
vigo894 6 months ago
I admire Chris, but he is romanticized far too much. Even hitchhiking isn't an easy thing to do, or to find places to sleep, etc. If you want to go into the Alaskan wilderness, bring a compass at least. And any good survivalist knows that if you walk along side a river, that's your best bet to civilization or help.
kaitlinan 7 months ago
@kaitlinan i agree but the reason he didnt bring a compass or a map was because he wanted to go somewhere not on a map. There is no place not on a map anymore so he was going to make a map of the area himself he did not want amap or compass for this reason. Alot of people say he died like an idiot.... Well ya know what he lived his dream..died happy (look at his last self portrait) and he would have survived if he didnt eat a molded sead thatbecame piosonis due to mold anyone could have donethat
p6a9u1l42 6 months ago
@p6a9u1l42 I agree with you completely but actually your taking your evidence from the film. he actually died of starvation not from mold. yet the cause of the starvation was his game was no balancing out the amount of energy he would use each day and it eventually caught up with him, but everyone dies sometimes and he's one of the few i have heard of who actually truthfully died happy.
irishlad1420 5 months ago
@irishlad1420 He did die of starvation but i got my evidence from the book it said he died from mold. The movie said he confused one plant with another and died from that but truth is they all could be true because there not sure why he died from starvation.
p6a9u1l42 5 months ago
@p6a9u1l42 the book is not a valid source atall, the film is a better source (scarcism), but an investigation into it said none of his food supply had mold and autopsy had said there was no signs of poisonous in mccandless's body.. The simplest and most Obvious reason he starved is just like the film "sort of" showed, the game he was hunting wasn't meeting his energy needs, after all he was living on badgers and birds ect.
irishlad1420 5 months ago
@p6a9u1l42 correct, the book was an earlier source that was when they believed it was a possible that he died from poisoning but the film later reveals it was a theory that they later didn't accept. He died of starvation as you say but even living off game alone wouldn't have kept him from starvation because he would no doubt have been suffering from malnutrition too, living off just rice and game would have left him with some deficiencies
368maw 5 months ago
you live in a beautiful part of the world! Alaska, right?
nivnah101 7 months ago
I saw there is a new book coming out called "Back To The Wild". Saw it mentioned in June issue of Outside magazine.
gawfboy 7 months ago
i admire chris. i really do. most people don't have the guts to do this. i understand that it was his thoughts, his minds, his feelings, his ideal of life and i respect that. However, after going through all of those experiences from his life, the last sentence he wrote was "Happiness is only real when shared." it's a shame. really, because it doesn't take much to know that. so i guess, it all depends on yourself and your background to find peace within you. don't be like him. be yourself
venommarvelous 7 months ago
i had a dog just like tht but it got hit by a bus
gameronlaptop 7 months ago
are you driving a power wheel?
yahmon421 7 months ago
People need to stop criticising him. He was within his rights to do what he liked and he went and pursued a dream. Admirable.
MountRushCollymore 7 months ago 60
@MountRushCollymore his dreams were stupid idealizations of living in the wild and he ended up learning the reality
ma0ma0ma0 6 months ago
@MountRushCollymore and he died like a complete idiot
moiseman 6 months ago
@moiseman ya and he lived out his dream... CAN YOU SAY THAT... can you say that you lived your dream? did you see his last self portrate? He knew he was going to die in a few days and hewas all smiles you want to know why.... because he did what he wanted to do his whole life + lived his dream... your dream is probably ten times easier than living off the land in the wild and you cant even come close to grabbing it. when your on your death bed you will be the one who died like a complete idiot
p6a9u1l42 6 months ago
@p6a9u1l42his dreams were stupid idealizations of living in the wild and he ended up learning the reality.
You're probably another ignorant being full of idealizations who has no real awerness of his environment & condition.
You, sir, are the definition of Stupid.
moiseman 6 months ago
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irishlad1420 5 months ago
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@moiseman And How was that?
irishlad1420 5 months ago
@MountRushCollymore Well as a parent I want my child to pursue his dreams, but I hope his dreams do not take his life at such an early age...im sure you can understand that?
shair00 4 months ago
@shair00 yes all these hero worshippers forget the pain his arrogant and selfish actions caused his family.
bartyfarslar 4 months ago
What's the difference between Chris McCandless and Aaron Ralston? Is Ralston also deserving of such praise?
avq5 7 months ago
autally..alex would hate all the publicity he got...all these people going to a place he thought was sucluded from others...
MrQuickSqueez 7 months ago
Seems to be a good trail or a bus would not be there. How come Alex Supertramp did not know about the road out? Sumpin dont add up. I aint saying he wasnt a unique person and he apparently did some crazy shit, but when he decided to go back to town, where was that road?
huncityproductions 8 months ago
@huncityproductions
The road always was there, but when Alex Supertramp (Chris McCandless) decided to walk out, the river he had to cross was too high. as a result, he was trapped.
trucker274 8 months ago
Inconsiderate, let him be, god blesss chris
picolli3100 8 months ago
what movie and who is this chris everybody is talking about? just found this by accident so i dno
smoffelol 8 months ago
@smoffelol It's called Into The Wild and it's about Chris McCandless. I suggest you research him, really interesting and inspirational guy.
0hoodster0 8 months ago
Is this the bus from the movie?
dealviinde 8 months ago
@dealviinde No, in the movie they used a replica
Drogba10Ronaldo9 8 months ago
it's so weird knowing that i was related to him. haha the McCandless's were horse thieves in ireland.
slayslay23 8 months ago
@slayslay23 how are you related to him? just because u have the same last name? if thats the case then that means i'm related to James Franco and the Spanish dictator Fransisco Franco.
defrancotv 8 months ago
Hi Chris,
I' m the moose you' ve killed...
I' d feel a whole lot better if you had stayed at home ....
pit2ryan3 8 months ago
Why dont you fix the bus so it will run?
dirtbiker4lfe 8 months ago
@dirtbiker4lfe that bus has been sitting there for at least 50 years, not to mention has been abandoned for at least 50 years. i don't think there is any chance it will ever run again. but that's my uneducated opinion.
lash83n 8 months ago
so thats where the bus to nowhere takes you
unnamedking1 8 months ago
@unnamedking1
No..That's where those with no where to go catch the bus!
applejak2000 8 months ago
FAG^ the buss is pretty cool tho
headbanger5554 8 months ago
was it serial to be at the bus knowing that Chris was there just 15 short years ago
i know it would be for me i would love to go there some day...
Patriotsfan346 9 months ago
Is anybody else as curious as me to wonder, where the hell that bus came from? I mean its 28 off trail. Who put it there? and Why?
kryptonek88 9 months ago
@kryptonek88 Wikipedia states, that it was left there by construction-workers, who built on the national-park not-so far away from there.
VictorRechnageL 9 months ago
ALEXANDER SUPERTRAMP!!!!
caiti214 9 months ago
Was somone living there once?
XDTheKingKingTheXD 9 months ago
@XDTheKingKingTheXD yah go read into the wild, great book. itll tell u his story
64talb 9 months ago
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who the fuck is chris?
Jar0mir 9 months ago
UPDATE, Chris was NOT suicidal! In his bag, on a hidden pocket, he had a few bucks and some IDs, meaning that at some point, he wanted to go back home.
If you want more information, watch the Indie film "The call of the wild" by Ron Lamothe!
burnmehdown214 9 months ago
Wait what is the point of this bus? Who died in it or what?
maxboya 9 months ago
learn how to use your camera properly your panning way too fast and to unsteadily
shortstuzz 9 months ago
I wish I could go there and leave my name somwehere on the walls of that bus. My name is Alexander also )))
osallivan231 9 months ago
it would be cooler if your ATV broke down.. then you would have to eat your dog and die :)
85LARGE 9 months ago
why is the bus there? wa it abandoned or sg?
smellytoilet1996 9 months ago
@smellytoilet1996 It was put there for miners or the road being constructed in the 60's. Multiple buses were out there, but this one was left for hunters. That's what I read anyway
thehilitereel 9 months ago
For those who want to find more about the true story behind Chris McCandless, here's a link to the write-up of the documentary The Call of the Wild by its maker, which states all facts:
tifilms[dot]com/wild/call_debunked.htm
I consider The Call of the Wild to be even better than Into the Wild by the way, it's way more truthful to the story which allows it to have an even more powerful message.
ParaSoar 9 months ago
Chris was certainly an inspirational person, his view on life ignites a desire that's inside all of us to experience life to the fullest before we die. It's too bad though that Into The Wild and the book, while still great, don't show some very important facts. For example, he didn't die of poisoning but simply of starvation, and he did have money on him as well as several ID's AND a MAP!
It's all explained in the documentary called The Call of the Wild, made simultaneously with Into the Wild.
ParaSoar 9 months ago
I shure the guy that died in that bus wouldnt mind people going in it and exporing it i think he was the type of guy that would think it's a free world...i know i wouldnt care i'd think where showing some amount of respect just by going their remebering a complete strangers!
johnplayersstandard 10 months ago
I hope people don't go in it!
johnplayersstandard 10 months ago
dude is this the REAL place and the real bus where everything happened???
georgevitisarch 10 months ago
@georgevitisarch I'd say so!
johnplayersstandard 10 months ago
get your dog out of the bus. and dont act like you are cooler than everyone because you can just go there when you want.
aron4251 10 months ago
You are Supertramp with wheels:) Good idea!
ardvark84 10 months ago
I found myself on a lot of his letters, this guy understood how happy you can find yourself out there ... But he understood one thing a bit too late : happiness only real if shared ! So SHARE it guys ! Get the hell out of ur computer :D That's how you can thank Chris today !
A belgian teen ...
tuboc 10 months ago
Es muy bonito, desde luego, pero pienso que Chris no hubiera ido en quad al bus. El buscaba caminos no transitados previamente. Seguir los pasos que Cris siguio no te hace estar en contacto con la naturaleza, sino seguir otro camino mas.
Cuando el dedo señala la luna...
eldvendeDlaguarda 10 months ago 7
@eldvendeDlaguarda
You're right, I don't see what I'm doing as the same as Chris. It's exploring his world, not experiencing it.
mtcaving 10 months ago 14
@mtcaving what did that guy say
tristensrl 6 months ago
would have been cooler if the ATV's weren't going in there!
BrittanyIrie 10 months ago
Scotland Flag (Lion's Rampart) In the bus :)
glasgowchris007 10 months ago
You sure do sound pretty excited to be there...
Quellepaur 10 months ago
Wow the guy recording did what Chris couldn't... Went home
Jmccavv 10 months ago
has anyone tried to make this a monument other than his parents?......if not that sucks, if everyone thought like him the world wouldnt be such a bad place, everyone needs to know about that brave man
deadhead517 10 months ago
That Dog would've made a nice meal in 1992.
RealMickyO 11 months ago 4
I'm sorry but I just have to say something Redemmaw: Wanting to honor someone is fine, but in my opinion it's one thing to visit the bus and pay your respects, that's all well and good. But to want to "sleep where he slept and breathe the air he breathed"...come on. You would be sleeping where the man DIED, where he suffered a harsh death, be it by his own hand or not. He died the way he wanted to I'm sure. That's like sleeping on someone's grave. Pitch a tent or something. Just a thought.
BurnsWIP21 11 months ago 2
and people that think he was stupid.....these people such as yourself are blinded by "logical thinking".
yes it would make sense to take a phone, a car, a huge supply of food, portable radio etc, but he wasnt taking a holiday!
thats what people such as yourself dont understand, he didnt want his trip to be easy, he wanted to taste the struggles of nature, to go into the wild....
SonOfTheRightHand29 11 months ago
KOOL
TheTraxxasaddict1 11 months ago
Smh, why did you take an ATV? Stands against everything Chris lived for.
MrManwitaplan 11 months ago
how did that bus get there?
50kT 11 months ago 3
i want to go there *__* i just saw the movie yesterday and it was so amazing. he was a good man!
LUZiiEx3 11 months ago
whats the point of a bus?
BigJohnsHog 11 months ago
What's the point? You might have a little respect for the guy who died in that bus. Leave the dog out of there.
eudnes 11 months ago
@eudnes ok, sorry to pick on you but i'm confused. first off, chris' whole motive was freedom, or something along those lines. exploration, adventure. he always crossed boundaries. this guy isn't disrespecting the place chris died. it is/was a public bus. he isn't spitting on the bed, the dog's not shitting on it... so isn't this a little contradictory? i bet somebody died on the place you're sitting right now. so? plenty of fucking people have gone in that bus. what about them?
sniffingglitter 10 months ago
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@eudnes ok, sorry to pick on you but i'm confused. first off, chris' whole motive was freedom, or something along those lines. exploration, adventure. he always crossed boundaries. this guy isn't disrespecting the place chris died. it is/was a public bus. he isn't spitting on the bed, the dog's not shitting on it... so isn't this a little contradictory? i bet somebody died on the place you're sitting right now. so? plenty of fucking people have gone in that bus. what about them?
sniffingglitter 10 months ago
Hehe there is a Scotland flag in the bus, im from Scotland, must visit there some point in my life.
Into The Wild really moved me personally.
Aldoo97 11 months ago
this guy has really missed the point - take your noisy polluting atm back to the city and walk
000ghostdog 11 months ago
this was in "Into the Wild" right?
bartsomething 11 months ago
wow that would have been so amazing!
EdgarRazorlip 11 months ago
id love to know who lived in the bus before chris
WereGlidingWithStyle 11 months ago
This is probably a stupid question but how did the bus get there? And all the equipment
insanesam123 1 year ago
@insanesam123 Read the book... krakauer explains aaallll of it there... you wont regreat it...
zavaletamiguel 11 months ago
@zavaletamiguel lol i actually just started reading the book at school afetr i posted this comment
insanesam123 11 months ago
@zavaletamiguel i haven't read the book, only seen the film (which is brilliant).. doesn't knowing too much about it ruin the mystique?
IwasFFA1989 11 months ago
@insanesam123
Some locals bought it and abandoned it as a hunting shelter.
fastrnb 11 months ago
Intense..
alexflum 1 year ago
what exactly is the bus? Obviously its a bus but is there any story or legend to it ?
scientologyRfail 1 year ago
@scientologyRfail Chris McCandless lived in the bus for four months while on a soul-searching, Alaskan adventure. if you've seen or heard about the book and popular movie "Into The Wild" its his story. I would recommend watching it. its amazing...life changing, if you will.
sundaymorningsong 1 year ago