The first thing I thought was "Hey Boulder! That's where I live! I know the Devil's Thumb! I see it every day!" Must be a different Devil's Thumb because why would he go to Alaska? His climb is fascinating me. He writes in so much detail about his own personal experiences. His relationship with his father seems to be a lot like the relationship between Walt and Chris. The fathers want success and a clear path for their son, but the son's believe that the father is a hypocrite and choose to do what they love. Krakauer explains that the father-son relationship is paralleled in their lives, along with a handful of traits, but it was only chance that Jon made it out alive and Chris didn't.
One of Jon's favorite authors thinks that climbing is psycho-neurotic and I somewhat agree. Jon, as John Menlove Edwards (that must've been a hard name to have growing up) did, felt a release from the world when climbing, but climbing was not the only thing Jon found comfort in. He did it to get away, but he didn't need it to function. For J.E.M that may have been the case, but it is not always a psycho-neurotic tendency. J.E.M did strike a resemblance to Chris to me though. Chris did find that being free on his own was the only way he could live. For Chris, being a traveller was a psycho-neurotic tendency. That's his fatal flaw; he can't live any way but they way he needs to live.
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