If you are going mountaineering you have to be aware of the impact on your light of the freezing cold that you will encounter at high altitude. Even if you have one of the best mountaineering headlamps, you will soon find yourself sitting in the dark if you don’t take the cold into account. This […]
Mallory’s Gear Was Lighter Than Modern Kit
Talk to people about the legion of climbers racing up the world’s 8000 meter peaks and you’ll likely get a comment that it’s easier now because of modern clothing and equipment. In fact most climbers these days think it’s safer to climb on Everest now than it was in the age of Edmund Hillary and […]
Gore-Tex Just Got a New Competitor
DuPont Active Layer Makes its Debut at Outdoor Retailer DuPont must be kicking themselves over having lost Bill Gore, the engineer who once worked for them and then went off to start his own company producing among other things GoreTex, probably the world’s best known waterproof and breathable fabric.Now DuPont is striking back with their […]
South Africans take Trango Tower
A little news from my South African compatriots. Well done guys. South Africans take Trango Tower: “South Africans take Trango Tower 29 August 2005 Four South African climbers have overcome treacherous conditions to reach the top of the sheer Trango Tower rock formation in Pakistan. Peter Lazarus (42), Marianne Pretorius (28), James Pitman (36) and […]