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The Stampede Trail is a remote road and trail located in the Denali Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Apart from a paved or maintained gravel road for 8 miles (13 km) between Eight Mile Lake and the trail's eastern end, the route consists of a primitive and at times dangerous hiking or ATV (all-terrain vehicle) trail following the path of the original road, which has deteriorated over the years.
After hiking along the snow-covered Stampede Trail, McCandless came upon an abandoned bus (about 28 miles (45 km) west of Healy at ) alongside an overgrown section of the trail near Denali National McCandless, according to Krakauer, attempted to continue "heading west until [he] hit the Bering Sea ."
Hiking The Stampede Trail, a guide to hiking to Bus 142 on the Stampede Trail. The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless, ISBN 978-0-06-232515-0, detailing what it was like growing-up in the McCandless household. The Call of the Wild, a 2007 documentary about McCandless made by Ron Lamothe. Vagabond, a 1985 French film that deals with a similar theme
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Authorities rescued three men making a pilgrimage to an abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness made famous by the book and film "Into the Wild." Three hikers, two from ...
No roads are extending out to the preserve areas, which are on the northwest and southwest ends of the park. The far north of the park, characterized by hills and rivers, is accessed from the east by the Stampede Trail, a dirt road that effectively stops at the park boundary near the former location of the Into the Wild bus.
Hundreds were killed outside Mecca in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in 2015. In a new study, researchers analyzed the movement of thousands of spectators attending the San Fermín ...
The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon in northwestern Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.
The event on Dec. 28, 1991, was planned at the last minute and had disorganized security; rowdy crowds resulted in a stampede killing nine people and injuring 29, according to a 1992 report by New ...