Because of his candor, readers are able to take this into account when the author views McCandless's activities with some sympathy.Īnd as a result of reading this chapter and the one that follows, the reader moves closer to McCandless and his perspective. In fact, it would be more ethically suspect if Krakauer did not divulge that he had his own "into the wild" experience as a young man. Note, however, that Krakauer's integrity as a journalist is not compromised, since he is entirely up-front about the experiences he shares in common with his subject, McCandless. In this chapter he abandons that perspective. Up to this point in Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer has maintained journalistic objectivity, or at least the appearance of objectivity. Awkwardly, stiff with fear, I started working my way back down. "My eyesight blurred, I began to hyperventilate, my calves started to shake. "The sour taste of panic rose in my throat," he recalls. Krakauer continues to climb up the glacier. But the pilot engaged to deliver the supplies misreads the altitude, almost entirely missing Krakauer's encampment. Krakauer has arranged ahead of time for supplies to be air-dropped to him so that he can continue his climb. After almost falling into a glacial crevasse, Krakauer sets up camp on a plateau.
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On his third day, however, high winds, stinging sheets of snow, and reduced visibility cause a series of dangerous mishaps. During his first two days of climbing, along a glacier at the base of the rock formation, Krakauer makes genuine progress.
Having reached Alaska on a fishing boat, Krakauer meets a woman who puts him up for the night before he sets out to scale the Devils Thumb.
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