Category: CRITICAL THINKING
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New for 2026. Permit-Only Ascents
These changes represent the greatest level of freedom granted to high altitude climbers in history. More objectives, more freedom and more potential in areas untouched by commercial tourism.
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Samaya x FTRE Assaut XP Special Order
In Spring 2026 a limited number of Assaut XPs will be released, putting what we will confidently call the finest expedition tents ever made into general circulation. We never intended these tents for general release so made zero compromises towards it, Samaya not only let us run riot with designs and concepts but threw their…
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Charlie Fowler Territory.
We know these ranges as the crucible for bigger things to come, for our own trips as well as alpinism in general that has expanded as far as it will in the niche it currently inhabits. When the only element left to improve on is contrived increments then it's time to expand the vision, and…
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Stay Tuned. Change is Coming.
We’re back. Six weeks across Tibet, all of it in places never before explored for climbing, high up on cold north faces, yomping loads up moraine, tracking snow leopards and Pallas cats, evading bears, wolves and vultures, long nights, and of course a huge amount of coffee gave us plenty of time to conjure and
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THE NORTH FACE VERTO FA BOOTS. REVIEW
NO ONE WAS WAITING FOR THE NEW VERTO FAs. THERE WAS LITTLE ANNOUNCEMENT, AND SURPRISING FOR A COMPANY AS SLICK AS TNF, VIRTUALLY NO MENTION FROM THEIR LEGION OF CAREFULLY PHOTOSHOPPED ATHLETES. WE ONLY KNEW ABOUT THEM FROM THEIR JAPANESE BRANCH, THEMSELVES NOT THAT INTERESTED AFTER THE YEARS OF TNF BOOTS HARDLY REGISTERING IN THE…
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MROZY PACKRAFTS FOR THE KARAKORAM
THIS LEVEL OF INNOVATION AND THIS RATE OF PROTOTYPING IS WHAT'S NEEDED TO CHASE THE EMERGING POSSIBILITIES OF MODERN EXPEDITION ALPINISM, WHERE THE PROBLEMS ARE NOT SIMPLY CLIMBING BUT THE PLACES IT HAPPENS IN. ONLY NEW AREAS - FREE FROM THE CONSTRAINTS THAT THE MODERN CLIMBING INDUSTRY IMPOSES - CAN ALLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW…
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ALTI ULTRALIGHT HYPERBARIC CHAMBER. TESTED ON CLIMBERS.
SINCE 2023, FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH ALTI EQUIPMENT, RESULTING IN THE FIRST ULTRALIGHT PRESSURIZABLE CHAMBERS MADE FOR INDEPENDENT CLIMBERS. FOR DECADES, THESE CHAMBERS HAVE BEEN PART OF COMMERCIAL MOUNTAINEERING - HEAVY, COMPLICATED AND VERY EXPENSIVE - BEING ALMOST A THING OF LEGEND THAT MOST HAD HEARD OF BUT VERY FEW HAD…
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FIRST ASCENTS. MAKING THEM HAPPEN
TO US, FIRST ASCENTS ARE OUR BUSINESS, HENCE WE INHABIT A NICHE WHERE WE ARE INUNDATED WITH THEM. THAT THIS 'NICHE' IS ACTUALLY THE MAJORITY OF ALL HIGH ALTITUDE TERRAIN ON EARTH IS A TWIST IN THE PLOT, AND IT SHOWS EXPLICITLY WHERE MODERN CLIMBING HAS BROUGHT ITSELF. IN PLACES LIKE THE TRANS-KARAKORAM, CHANGTANG AND…
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NNORMAL TOMIR 0.2 BOOT REVIEW. A SOLUTION WHERE A SOLUTION IS NEEDED
IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHAT ELSE THESE WOULD BE GOOD FOR, AS THERE ARE BETTER RUNNING SHOES, BETTER LIGHT ALPINE BOOTS AND BETTER CLIMBING APPROACH SHOES - BUT FOR WEARING THROUGH AIRPORTS, AROUND ICY TOWNS, ALONG DUSTY AND ROCKY TRAILS THEN UP MILES OF ICE, BOULDERS, GLACIER AND MORRAINE AS THE WINTER WINDS BLOW WE'VE…
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2026 CHANGTANG EXPEDITION. ULAGH MUZTAGH, BUKADABAN FENG & UNNAMED PEAKS
IN LATE 2024 WE CROSSED THE NORTHERN CHANGTANG ON THE WAY BACK FROM AKSAI CHIN, THE KUNLUN AND THE KARAKORAM. THIS LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE XINJIANG AUTHORITIES, THAT BASED ON OUR INTERACTIONS IN THOSE AREAS, HAS NOW GIVEN US UNPARALLELD ACCESS TO ALL OF XINJIANG. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY…
Recent Posts
- New for 2026. Permit-Only Ascents
- Samaya x FTRE Assaut XP Special Order
- Charlie Fowler Territory.
- Stay Tuned. Change is Coming.
- THE NORTH FACE VERTO FA BOOTS. REVIEW
