MAMMUT

or a company so associated with the mountains, one that’s based in a country so associated with the mountains—Switzerland—it’s perhaps surprising that Mammut’s birth 160 years ago had absolutely nothing to do with the mountains. In 1862, ropemaker Kaspar Tanner—after completing a three-year apprenticeship and spending time in Germany honing his craft—launched his own ropemaking business, Seilerei Tanner, in Dintikon, a small Swiss village near Lake Hallwil in the north of the country; the famed Alps are in the