The High Point

Dax
7 min readOct 30, 2022

How to Tie a Knot, Part Four

This is Part Four in a series about climbing and relationships. You can catch up on Part One, Part Two, and Part Three by following the links.

My son is taller than me in the picture. We are standing on Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous United States. We asked some hikers to take a picture of us. The summit is crowded with smiling hikers in bright puffy jackets. We are the only people wearing helmets, and I overhear somebody saying something about the Mountaineer’s Route.

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