Alaska News

Parents of McCandless visit the bus

Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner passes along news from a South Dakota television station that the parents of Chris McCandless have completed a visit to the wrecked bus near Healy where their son died in an effort to live in complete solitude. McCandless's parents were part of a group of about 20 people who visited the site to honor him this March, and are helping promote a new book and DVD presenting a new account of the story. Read much more from Cole, here, and read the original report from KELOLAND Television, here.

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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