Very entertaining and educational. I'm sure it was a lot less fun to experience, then to read.
Couple of thoughts:
-- "he took the wrong way down"...for being in a whiteout, he astonishingly took the RIGHT way down, as a high percentage of other directions were thousand foot cliffs.
Many others have taken the other routes. They are written about in books.
- I don't think Alex was the front of the pack of PCT'ers. Two guys (don't know names) arrived at Vermillion on May 12.