Answer: Chris being described as "riding a giddy Emersonian high" means that he was ignoring posted warnings that said strictly forbidden area.
The meaning that Krakauer denotes while recounting Chris as "Emersonian high" would be:
- Ignorance displayed by him towards the warnings that were posted to signal the area as strictly prohibited.
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