Edited by Steven Irvine
Banking’s real climbers
Not content to climb simply within their own organizations, a growing number of bankers are to be found digging their crampons into the ice of some of the world’s most perilous mountains.
Standard Chartered’s chief executive Malcolm Williamson managed to squeeze a week off work in 1994 to climb Africa’s highest summit, 5,900-metre (19,400-foot) Kilimanjaro.
“I had to go into a fax-free zone for a week,” says 56-year-old Williamson. “This would not have made me too popular with my chairman had there been a bid for the bank in my absence.
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