![]() He starts on his journey to the peak the next day, totally alone. Krakauer arrives in Petersburg, the nearest town, and meets a woman named Kai, who invites him home for dinner and gives him a place to sleep. To get to the Thumb required either a jet or a boat, so he abandons his car and gets passage on a workboat. He quits his carpentry job in Colorado, and drives off to Alaska. He is dimly aware that he might be getting in over his head, but that is part of the point, and only encourages his zeal. ![]() At twenty-three, he plans on an especially dangerous climb in Alaska, the Devils Thumb, and determines that he will go it alone. He becomes obsessed with climbing in his late teens, and spends all of his time fantasizing about, planning and undertaking dangerous climbs. Krakauer, like McCandless, was a willful, self-absorbed, passionate, and moody child who had problems with male authority figures.
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