Iconic bus from ‘Into The Wild’ removed as public safety measure
Into The Wild has been removed as a public safety measure.The bus, which sat in the wilds of Alaska, was a popular tourist attraction for adventurous travellers, due to its location in an area with unpredictable weather and no phone signal.Its danger as a tourist attraction has meant many tourists have become trapped or injured there, and the death by starvation of tourist Christopher McCandless at the location in 1992 was the inspiration for Into The Wild.Last year, the death of a woman from Belarus at the location and the rescue of five Italian tourists led to calls from local officials for the bus to be removed.The bus has now been removed by the Alaska National Guard as part of a training mission “at no cost to the public or additional