Into The Wild: Italian hikers rescued in Alaska after visiting infamous deadly pilgrimage... February 25, 2020 at 12:58AM

The rescue was the latest episode involving the bus, first made famous by Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book Into the Wild and then by Sean Penn’s 2007 film of the same name. Both fuelled a lingering mystique about a young idealist, Christopher McCandless, who met his death from starvation in the bus.