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THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 1

By Roslyn Kavanagh · 4 parts · 14 h 38 min · English

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California and Utah, 1957 to 2010. Yvon Chouinard teaches himself blacksmithing to make pitons that can be taken out of the rock and driven again, and sells them from the back of a car to a sport with a few hundred serious participants in it. Fifteen years later his own catalog tells those customers to stop buying his best product. Peter Metcalf arrives in 1982 to run the hardware company while its founder's attention moves to clothing; by 1989 the American liability insurance market has priced climbing hardware out of existence and the company is in bankruptcy. Metcalf and the employees buy the assets, move to Salt Lake City, and write the standards and build the insurance pool without which nobody will underwrite them at all. Covers Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost, Peter Metcalf, Chouinard Equipment, and Great Pacific Iron Works.

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  1. Part 01

    3:20:00

  2. Part 02

    3:35:47

  3. Part 03

    3:52:13

  4. Part 04

    3:49:31

Books in this series

  1. THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 1

    4 parts · 14 h 38 min

  2. THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 2

    4 parts · 13 h 21 min

  3. THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 38 min

  4. THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 4

    4 parts · 13 h 53 min

  5. THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 41 min

  6. THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 6 min