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Sixty years ago in the town of Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, a teenage boy named Åke Nordin was planning an ambitious hike—but he had a problem. Backpacks at the time were ill designed, bulky and unsuited to the long-distance trek up the Västerbotten mountains. The lad's solution was to make his own backpack with his mother's sewing machine.

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