Greg, Mike and Jeff Lowe aimed high from a young age. By twenty they were among the best climbers around. But something was holding the brothers back on the big walls. So in 1967, instead of tying into a rope, Greg Lowe tied himself to a sewing machine – and went on to give the world a climbing pack with an innovative internal frame, compression straps and other features nobody had seen before. A small workshop in Utah gave birth to the blueprint for every modern technical backpack.