Veratex at the Summit

It's a long way to the top, they say, and perhaps few senior executives in the home textiles world know that better than Dale Talbert.

Veratex vice president Talbert recently climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the largest of an east/west belt of about 20 volcanoes near the southern end of the East African Rift Valley in Tanzania.

Talbert was one of seven people in his climbing group. The journey took nine days.

Asked what he craved most upon his decent, Talbert said: “I wanted a bath.”