AHEAD OF THE PACK
AARN TATE can’t stop solving problems. Fortunately, when he started his career in the early 1970s there were a lot of problems to solve.
For nearly 50 years, Tate has been driven by one fixation: to make outdoor gear better. That mission has taken him around the world, helping to change the way thousands of people experience the outdoors and how they carry their gear.
“It became a passion and started a career which I never expected,” Tate says.
That passion started in Australia, where Tate grew up and discovered a love for tramping while studying at the University of Sydney.
“I studied biology,” he says. “I didn’t enjoy working in the laboratory and the actual analysis seemed like a waste of
