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  • March 1st 2012 Issue
  • Story by Geraldine Warner
  • Parallel PEAKS

    Entrepreneur, orchardist, and author John McQuaig sees parallels between climbing a mountain and running a business.

    Orchardist John McQuaig hopes hisbook will help people hold onto their dreams and keep heading upward in their business pursuits. Geraldine Warner Entrepreneur, orchardist, and mountaineer John McQuaig dreamed for years of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He finally reached the false summit, Gilman’s Point, at an elevation of 18,651 feet, after climbing for five days. The summit push, which took more than seven hours, began before midnight and he’d not slept at all that night. Utter exhaustion made the prospect of heading back down very appealing, but McQuaig resolved to plod slowly and wearily onwards to the true summit, […]

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