This was a very engrossing book, and I've read it twice already. You know Chris was wrong to do what he did, and probably unstable, but you still understand why he did it. Maybe there's a little of Chris in a lot of us-- the romantic adventurer. Or maybe we have someone like Chris in our own families. Whatever it is, I found this very moving. Knowing upfront that he died made it even more poignant and frustrating at the same time. Excellent book, not harrowing like Into Thin Air, but almost as personal. I'll keep reading Jon Krakauer's books.