Peak Marcello Case Study

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Peak Marcello and His Father Joshua Wood did not get along very well with peak as a normal family would, when Joshua first saved peak from the court case. Josh´s original plan was to use peak to gain publicity and more customers for his company. If Joshua´s climbing company managed to get a 13 year old boy to the summit, why could they not manage to get anybody up the mountain? Joshua hinted of his plan a little bit when he was talking to peak ¨Don´t worry about it, I´ll surely get my chunk of the money back¨ referring to his plan. Peak only found out about this plan because of his newly acquainted friend, Sun-Jo. Later in the story peak confronts Josh and they pull together as father and son, to get peak to the summit for a new

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