Interestingly, Mr. Richards was inspired to undertake this trip after seeing
127 Hours; apparently this incident took place in the same canyon as Aron Ralston's ordeal.
Much the same thing seems to be happening around the magic bus featured in Krakaur's "Into the Wild" book and movie about same. Every season there has been a couple of SARs to retrieve people making a pilgrimage to the bus. A couple of the pilgrims have died in the attempt. The locals in Healy are getting rather tired of it.
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"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more."
-Dorothy, in The Wizard of Oz