Чиновники вывозят в дикий автобус из бэккантри Аляски, ссылаясь на соображения общественной безопасности

(JUNEAU, Alaska) — An abandoned bus within the Alaska backcountry, popularized by the book “Into the Wild” and movie of the identical title, became eliminated Thursday, reveal officers talked about.

The choice prioritizes public safety, Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige talked about.

The bus has long attracted adventurers to an dwelling with out cell telephone provider and marked by unpredictable climate and at-events swollen rivers. Some enjoy needed to be rescued or enjoy died. Christopher McCandless, the self-discipline of the book and movie, died there in 1992.

The rescue earlier this year of five Italian vacationers and loss of life final year of a lady from Belarus intensified calls from local officers for the bus, about 25 miles from the Parks Twin carriageway, to be eliminated.

The Alaska Navy National Guard moved the bus as a part of a coaching mission “at no rate to the public or further rate to the reveal,” Feige talked about.

The Alaska National Guard, in a release, talked about the bus became eliminated utilizing a heavy-preserve helicopter. The crew ensured the safety of a suitcase with sentimental rate to the McCandless family, the discharge states. It doesn’t checklist that item further.

Feige, in a release, talked about the bus will be kept in a trusty web page whereas her department weighs varied ideas for what to quit with it.

“We encourage folks to revel in Alaska’s wild areas safely, and we understand the preserve this bus has had on the stylish creativeness,” she talked about in a release. “Nonetheless, here’s an abandoned and deteriorating vehicle that became requiring dangerous and dear rescue efforts. More importantly, it became costing some guests their lives.”

McCandless, a 24-year-extinct from Virginia, became averted from looking for serve by the swollen banks of the Teklanika River. He died of hunger within the bus in 1992, and wrote in a journal about residing within the bus for 114 days, staunch up to his loss of life.

The long-abandoned Fairbanks city bus grew to turn into essential by the 1996 book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, and a 2007 Sean Penn-directed movie of the identical title.

The Department of Natural Resources talked about the 1940s-technology bus had been conventional by a construction company to dwelling workers all over work on an access avenue within the dwelling and became abandoned when the work became done in 1961.

In March, officers within the Denali Borough based in Healy, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the bus, voted unanimously to be rid of it.

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