Jon Cheesbrough is director of the property advisory and project delivery firm Verto Projects. He lives at Araluen Estate in the Perth Hills.
Why climbing? I grew up in the Lake District in England, so I never really had a choice. Walking up Helvellyn or Scafell Pike was a normal weekend as a kid. I kept going back because I like the problem of it: picking a line, finding the next foothold, getting a bit out of breath and a bit nervous, and enjoying it anyway.
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