Climb!: The Pintsriped Backpack

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From the Japanese Alps to the fabled Snowdon moun-tains of North Wales: a journey that started 30 years agoby a group of students from the University of WesternAustralia, has given far more than the exhilaration of pit-ting wit and energy against the caprices of nature and theunpredictable mood-swings of raw climate.It has provided the hike-loving Class of 1970 with aworking allegory for the journey through a very different,yet equally treacherous, terrain: for their experiences andencounters along the rugged tracks and climbs of the greatoutdoors has produced an invaluable set of map refer-ences to understand better the topography of commerce.When the students (who today represent a broad bandof business disciplines), set out on their first planned trekto New Zealand all those years ago, they had no idea thatthe interest among them would endure; they had even lessidea of the very special dimension which the walks wereto give to their professional lives ISBN:9789628606719