How a band of advisor-execs scaled 5,000 sunless feet to the summit of the Half Dome -- and the lessons the exploit yields for growing RIAs
Advisors donned headlamps, assuming considerable risk effecting the nighttime ascent in Yosemite -- including an encounter with a mama bear
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Pete Giza
Skip,
What no pictures of you and Eric playing cards while bivouacked on Half Dome’s face?! :-D
Pete