"I worked as an English teacher in a town in the HighAtlas Mountains in Morocco for two years, and quickly grew to love this part of the world, " he said.
"All of these herbs are native to the HighAtlas, and they serve medicinal purposes passed down by Berber families through generations, " explains Rachida Mouch, advisor to the local Dar Taliba Berber botany project.
It reveals itself to the Warren Miller crew not only as a mountain vista viewed through groves of palms and pomegranates from the valley floor in Marrakech, but also as great cirques and vast skiable terrain in the HighAtlas itself.
The 44-year-old senior principal at Atlas hand-picked each of these high-performing biotechs with his two partners, Rob Zegelaar in London and Joel Besse in Paris.
That is one radical implication of an intriguing new report from the folks at Dartmouth Atlas that finds little relationship between the supply of primary care doctors in a region and access to high quality care.