Devils+Thumb

__King of the Mountain __ The earliest mountaineer to reach the summit of Devil's Thumb was Fred Beckey in 1946. It took him and two others 50 days. Alaska's rugged scenery featured strongly in the Klondike gold rush of 1887, with the trail to the gold fields leading through mountainous terrain.



“And if I did pull it off. . . I was afraid to let myself imagine the triumphant aftermath, lest I invite a jinx, But I never had any doubt that climbing the Devils Thumb would transform my life. How could it not?” ~Chris McCandless~   