How does the shoemaker love his work? Heart and sole
Peter Limmer comes from a family of footwear makers. Today he crafts custom hiking boots with the tools, and in the shop, that his grandfather left him.
ByJennifer S. Holland
Photographs byHannah Whitaker
Published December 5, 2019
This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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