Bloomberg Law
May 31, 2017, 10:21 PM UTC

John Quinn Takes On Mount Everest

Casey Sullivan

John Quinn, known for representing Samsung in patent wars with Apple over its Android smartphone, says there are two types of people in this world: beach people and mountain people.

“I’m a mountain person,” said Quinn, fresh off a 24,000-foot hike of Mount Everest’s North Col.

Quinn, 65, spent three weeks making the trek, on the border of Tibet and Nepal — or as he described it, “the most time I’ve ever taken off [from work] in my whole life.”

During this time, from April 21 to May 13, he established a correspondence with friends and family, which Quinn agreed to share with Big ...

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