“The Devil’s Thumb” and “Everest” Perhaps there is one accomplishment everyone needs to feel complete whether that is something along the lines of making an advancement in something say cancer, and while that may be true others have what may seem to be a little more trivial goals and not as illusory when compared to one extravagant as that. In this case, John Krakauer sets out to try and make something meaningful with his life by climbing The Devil’s Thumb in “The Devil’s Thumb.” Some may regard this dream of one that is of a gratuitous or even a spurious one because there is not any real reason why he feels like this will help him to feel accomplished in life other than the fact that it is something he has never tried to do before. Similarly, Erik Weihenmayer sets out to do to the same thing as Krakauer with Mount Everest …show more content…
For example, when they start climbing up the mountain, the wind blowing ruins the original idea of how to help Erik hear his way up the mountain which is when you see the unexpectedness in his tone causing the idea of using the bell as a solution to help expedite the process of climbing. In “The Devil’s Thumb,” reflection upon those flashbacks can set the tone for the present day text. In “The Devil’s Thumb” more than “Everest” the reader is taken on an emotional roller coaster. From the end of the passage, it was evident that Krakauer did not feel like becoming a luminary from this experience was very fulfilling for him, causing him to reach the top of the mountain and immediately curtain his trip by not hardly spending any time at the top as if he felt he would receive some kind of endowment for reaching the top other than being amongst the pantheon of other mountain