Another woman died while looking for the movie collective "Towards Wild Roads" and asked what to do with the vehicle.

It is not necessary or finished writing "Into the wild bus" so that the predictive search tool anticipates your wishes with dozens of proposals. A paradox, taking into account the soul of the story, which leads us to think about what would have happened to Christopher McCandless to know the future benefits of Google. The proposed options betray the intent of those who type – location, coordinates, how to get there, maps – and adventurous blog posts that step by step bring the route to the destination. In a society that boasts of people coming to Chernobyl to enrich their Instagram account with the success of television, it's no wonder so many others put your life in danger of pilgrimage to the vehicle in which the protagonist of the literary work and the cult movie later, Towards Wild Roads (Into The Wild).

Newlyweds Veramika Maikamava and Piotr Markielau, 24-year-old Belarusian, They decided to dedicate their honeymoon to the exploration of Alaska, more specifically, Denali National Park. His goal was to follow in the footsteps of McCandless, played by Emile Hirsch in the 2007 film, until he finds the bus in which the young man who became a martyr of the anti-capitalist movement died. The obstacle they encountered was identical to that encountered by their idol: the strength of the flow of the Teklanika River, increased because of the heavy rains of the previous days. Veramika lost balance by trying to cross her, dropped the rope and was dragged by the stream.. Although her partner managed to get her out of the water a few meters later, he could not revive her. The newspaper Fairbanks Daily News-Miner He published on July 23 details of a story that shook the media around the world, but this is not the first time that this has happened.

The film, based on Jon Krakauer's 1996 homonymous book, has strengthened its Bible status in recent years. néohippie and a cult work, acclaimed by a legion of followers who pay homage to the university student who died of hunger at age 24 after giving up the pleasures of easy living to dive into the coarsest nature. In 2010, another 29-year-old Swiss tourist drowned in Teklanika and, as confirmed Ken Marsh, spokesman for the state police of Alaska, Since the film made by Sean Penn has appeared, about fifteen rescue operations have been conducted in the region.Hundreds of tourists from around the world have tried to get to this wheeled nirvana, with the intention of repeating the idyllic and romantic journey of looking for themselves by ignoring the kamikaze of society.

McCandless lived there for a little over a hundred days during the summer of 1992. Moved by the works of London, Thoreau and Tolstoy, and during a tour through the United States that recalls the story recounted by Kerouac On the way, He decided to test his ability to survive with virtually no equipment or equipment and to donate all his savings. His house at that time was an abandoned bus. Since then known as Magic busNumber 142 of the Fairbanks public fleet had been taken there three years earlier by a construction company as temporary shelter for its employees. When hunger began to wreak havoc – he came to weigh only 30 kilos – McCandless tried in vain to cross the Teklanika to return to civilization. The day hikers found him, he had been dead for three weeks.

His memoirs, collected by journalist Jon Krakauer in the form of a report for the magazine On the outside and later as a book, they inspired groups like the Canadian Arcade Fire, which dedicated the theme Ward 2. The success of the film adaptation nominated for two Oscars and the unconscious pilgrimage of his fans have a tourist ball that agencies profit from offering different visits around the park and even helicopter tours to see – more safely – the famous vehicle. It is not uncommon to find on Instagram pictures of hikers who have managed to reach him. "Happiness is only real if it is shared," writes one of Instagramers lucky by posing next to the shelter, reproducing the famous appointment attributed to McCandless.

The death of Veramika Maikamava has again fueled the controversy among park residents, those who are wondering about the best solution to terminate this type of information are to move the bus from its original location to a safe place or directly from "take a match and a bottle of butane "and cut them for fun. According to the newspaper Anchorage Daily News, the inhabitants of neighboring cities claim to be tired of tourists ignoring their warnings on the danger of the road, not to mention the economic impact that tax rescues have on taxpayers. The controversy around 142 is not much different from McCandless's own, described by some of the heroes of the counterculture, and others as mere reckless hiker, whose fame is understood only as a consequence of the tragic destiny of its end. hug -capitalist- Hollywood. Kris Fister, spokesperson for Denali National Park, confirmed in the same newspaper that it would be the tourist pressure itself that would put an end to this emblematic place. "I do not believe, given the current conditions and the number of people who come to his house and take some souvenir with them, that the bus takes too long." Perhaps Towards suicidal lanes It would have been a better title for the job.