workbench with many kind of tools on it.

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.

This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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