PARBAT EXPEDITION 140L ULTRA PACK
EXPEDITIONS ARE ABOUT CARRYING, AND OUR TRIPS ARE SO SPECIFIC THEY DON’T FIT WHAT NORMAL PACKS CAN DO. LONG AGO WE GAVE UP ON OFF-THE-SHELF OPTIONS AND HAVE CYCLED THROUGH MULTIPLE OTHER OPTIONS, ALL FALLING SHORT IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS, UNTIL WE TEAMED UP WITH PARBAT.
WE HAVE USED MULTIPLE PACKS FROM PARBAT, PUSHING A WAY FORWARD AS OUR DEMANDS HAVE INCREASED IN CONCERT WITH PARBATS OWN DEVELOPMENT. OUR REQUIREMENTS BASICALLY BOIL DOWN TO THE DIRECTIVE OF ‘BIGGER BUT LIGHTER’ WHICH IS IT’S OWN DICHOTOMY, BUT ONE THAT PARBAT KEEPS FINDING WAYS TO ACHEIVE. THIS IS TRUE COLLABORATION, FEEDING OFF EACH OTHERS POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT ARE TAKING PACKS TO PLACES PREVIOUSLY UNREAL.
ONLY PARBAT HAS THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT AND APPETITE FOR INNOVATION WE NEED, TO RESOLVE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF MOVING STUFF WE NEED TO PLACES WE WANT TO USE IT. OBSERVATIONS, DISCERNMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION ON OUR SIDE INTEGRATE WITH PRODUCTION WIZARDRY, MATERIAL ALCHEMY AND AND FURTHER EXPERIMENTATION AT PARBAT, PRODUCING PACKS LIKE THE EXPEDITION ULTRA 140L THAT ARE LIKE NOTHING ELSE OUT THERE.
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WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS BOTH THE LARGEST AND LIGHTEST PACK WE HAVE EVER HAD, SACRIFICING NOTHING IN DURABILITY OR SOPHISTICATION AND EXCEEDING ANYTHING ELSE IN DESIGN EXECUTION, MATERIAL EXPLOITATION AND TECHNOLOGY. VERY LITTLE IN THIS PACK IS LIKE ANYTHING IN ANY OTHER PACK, AND EVEN ON PARBATS TIMELINE OF EVOLUTION IS A STARTLING LEAP.
AT 140 LITERS THE EXPEDITION ULTRA WEIGHS 460g, WHICH IS ABOUT 30% WHAT ANYTHING ELSE OF THAT SIZE WEIGHS. NOTHING IS LEFT OUT THAT MATTERS, THERE IS FULL PADDED SUSPENSION, BACK PANEL AND GRAB LOOPS, AND YET FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER FOR A COMMERCIAL PACK WE HAVE NOT HAD TO REACH FOR THE SCISSORS.
460g FINDS NO COMPROMISE IN STRENGTH AS THE WEIGHT WAS AVOIDED VIA REDUCTION, NOT CUTTING CORNERS. THERE ARE MINIMAL SEAMS, SMART PATTERNING AND CLEVER GEOMETRY THAT ENABLES STRENGTH WITHOUT OVERBUILDING, AND THE MATERIALS USED ARE 100% ALUULA COMPOSITES, THAT INCLUDES STUFF NOT SEEN ELSEWHERE AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION NO OTHER MATERIALS CAN ACHIEVE.
THE APPLICATION OF ALUULA COMPOSITES MEANS THE PACK HAS A SEMI-RIGID FORM, INSTEAD OF BEING A HUGE FLACCID SACK IT WOULD HAVE TO BE IF MADE TO THAT WEIGHT IN ANYTHING ELSE. WIDELY DIFFERENT ALUULA VARIANTS BONDED WITH OTHER MATERIALS KEEPS THE PACKS FORM UNDER LARGE LOADS, WITH ZERO WARPING OR BULGING AND MINIMAL EXPOSURE TO ABRAISION.
A PRIMARY ELEMENT OF THE EXPEDITION ULTRA IS THE SUSPENSION GEOMETRY, WITH SIGNIFICANT R&D BEHIND THE BACK PANEL, SHOULDER GEOMETRY, LOWER BACK SHAPE AND BELT ATTACHMENT. THIS IS ALL ORIENTED FOR USE YOMPING BIG LOADS UP COMPLEX TERRAIN, THAT TRANSITION EVER STEEPER OVER GLACIERS AND MIXED GROUND TO END IN CLIMBING. AT 460g, AND BEING HIGHLY COMPRESSIBLE, THIS PACK THEN RECONFIGURES AS A MEDIUM SIZED CLIMBING PACK AT HALF THE MASS, THAT IS STILL LIGHT FOR ITS SIZE. THIS IS THE ONLY PACK THAT TRULY LOADS AS A HAULER THEN CLIMBERS LIKE A LEADER, AS A GENUINE ONE-PACK-SOLUTION FOR SERIOUS EXPEDITION USE.
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BE AWARE THIS IS A DEDICATED HIGH ALTITUDE EXPEDITION PACK, DESIGNED FOR THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF TRIPS LIKE WE RUN TO AKSAI QIN. THE WORD ‘ULTRA’ APPLIES TO THE SORT OF CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY WHICH SUCH TRIPS HAVE TO DEAL WITH, WITH CONNOTATIONS TO THINGS LIKE ‘ULTRALIGHT’ BEING DEFAULT NOT CONTRIVED. IN OUR WORLD EVERY GRAM SAVED ON PACK WEIGHT BECOMES FUEL, FOOD AND INSULATION, WHICH WHEN COMPARED TO REGULAR PACKS EQUATES TO AN INCREDIBLE EXTRA WEEK OF SUSTAINMENT. THIS FURTHER EXTRAPOLATES TO ANOTHER 1000m OF CLIMBING OR ANOTHER WEEK INTO WILDERNESS OR TWO WEEKS INTO WINTER, WHICH ARE VERY REAL NUMBERS IN A VERY REAL WORLD, FAR FROM THE REACH OF MOST CLIMBING ELSEWHERE.
THE PARBAT EXPEDITION 140L ULTRA IS BEING TESTED IN JAPAN THEN GOING TO TIBET FOR OUR SPRING EXPEDITION. STAY TUNED FOR FULL IMAGES AND UPDATES. WHEN AND HOW PARBAT WILL RELEASE THEM WILL BE KNOWN SOON, AS YET THEY ONLY AVAILABLE TO CLIMBERS ON FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS TEAMS.
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