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Kim Carrigan BOOK 28-Oct-2016 At 8:16:44 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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CHECK THIS OUT !!!! COOOL ...i just googled ' kim carrigan climber video ' and found this :

'...Along the way you must have worked with some of the big names in climbing?

For a while I was also responsible for sponsorship and producing the Mammut catalogues. When we were distributing Boreal boots Wolfgang Güllich was one of our sponsored climbers and he would get 50 Pfennig for every pair we sold in Germany. I tried to make sure every catalogue had one feature that I felt was likely to be an important future aspect of climbing, like the John Bachar article on training in the 1983 catalogue.

Wolfgang introduced me to the Australian hot-shot climber, Kim Carrigan, who came to live in Switzerland for six months in 1986, to help me develop climbing harnesses. As part of the deal he got half-a-Swiss Franc royalty on each sale. In the end he got a job as Export Manager and stayed for four or five years before returning to Australia. He has now got a successful business making bread...'

http://dmmclimbing.com/news/2015/01/special-agent-switzerland/

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