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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

Author Guest Columnist Skip Schweiss July 18, 2014 at 3:05 PM
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Skip Schweiss in front of the Nevada Falls: The plan was to go out in waves .... We almost needed an algorithm to figure it all out.

Eric Clarke

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Skip Schweiss

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Loring Ward

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Alex Potts

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Alex Murguia

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Chip Roame

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Scott MacKillop


Pete Giza

Pete Giza

July 20, 2014 — 2:44 PM

Skip,

What no pictures of you and Eric playing cards while bivouacked on Half Dome’s face?! :-D

Pete


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