(Jillian Rogers/AP file photo via The Washington Post) Christopher McCandless starved to death in 1992 in this bus on Stampede Road near Healy, Alaska. The abandoned Fairbanks City Transit bus 142 has become somewhat of a pilgrimage spot in recent decades, sometimes with a devastating ending. A woman died Thursday trying to cross a river to reach the bus.
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