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A 24-year-old woman from Belarus died on Alaska's Stampede Trail while attempting to visit an abandoned bus made famous by the book and film "Into the Wild."
Veramika Maikamava and her husband Piotr Markielau wanted to reach Fairbanks Bus 142, where "Into the Wild" subject Christopher McCandless died in 1992, Alaska State Trooper spokesperson Ken Marsh told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Markielau called state troopers in Fairbanks on Thursday night to report that his wife had died, according to a news release from the Alaska State Troopers.
So how did that bus get there in the first place? I would think that the smartest course of action would be to follow whatever road it used to get there. (Well no, actually the smartest course of action would be to just look at a photograph of the bus and not try and visit it in person. But you get the idea.)
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I don't understand why so many people are so infatuated with this kid who committed suicide via stupidity.
I think it's been conclusively proven he didn't intend to die. The plant that he ate was, in fact, one of the plants listed as "edible", or was within that species and looked exactly like the edible one in his survival book.
His parents pretended not to know why he was so rejecting of his mother, but it's come out how really awful his family was to him.
People who met him along the way found him memorable, and charming. I personally would have loved to have met him.
I don't understand why so many people are so infatuated with this kid who committed suicide via stupidity.
It doesn't sound like it was stupidity to me. Maybe you're confusing him with the kid who went out into the Alaskan bush to live with the nice grizzly bears?
I don't understand why so many people are so infatuated with this kid who committed suicide via stupidity.
He's a big hero of mine. He didn't commit suicide, he just made a mistake. He died living the life he loved, and that's inspiring.
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