After putting up with my Mammut Skywalker for over a year, I finally decided enough was enough and elected to buy a new climbing helmet.
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Climbing equipment
Features climbing equipment that we have drooled over, spent our hard earned wages on and tested to destruction. If you have some climbing equipment that you would like to praise or pull to pieces on this site, please send your review to: gareth(at)rockclimbinguk.co.uk. If you sell or manufacture climbing equipment and you would like us to review it, please get in touch at the same email address and we’ll get straight back to you.
The Mammut Ultimate Hoody is a Soft Shell, Gore-Windstopper.You’ll start to see a lot of Soft Shell technology, as it is starting to become really popular in the UK. Our European brethren have been fans of it for a long time.
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Getting back to basics and enjoying all that the great outdoors has to offer means incredible views, fresh air and just ‘getting away from it all’. From rock climbing and camping to mountain biking we return home to [...]
If you’re like me and you’re struggling to take the right jacket out with you because the weather can’t seem to decide what it wants to do, you probably need some sort of wind/shell jacket.
A friend of mine recommended the La Sportiva Katana climbing shoes, and until I tried them I had always been under the impression that you had to be a really good climber to wear them.
I hate this climbing helmet! Sorry Mammut, please don’t take it personally, I would probably hate any climbing helmet. I am completely committed to the idea of wearing a helmet for climbing, I’ve just never quite got along with actually doing it.
I bought the Mammut Skywalker climbing helmet about a year ago. Brother David and I found ourselves primarily climbing multi-pitch routes where rock-fall is a real possibility, so we thought it high time we invested in helmets.
I have a confession to make. Until recently I didn’t have a climbing pack. My kit (and by kit I mean my packed lunch and a drink) has been carried in a cheap drawstring bag, casually cast over one shoulder. My completely inappropriate bag meant that my brother David carried pretty much our entire climbing rack in his pack, which goes some way to explaining my reluctance to splash out out on a proper climbing pack. Eventually my guilt got the better of me and I decided to spend some money. I opted for the OMM ‘Classic’ 31L pack.
If you’re reading this, the rock climbing bug has almost certainly taken hold of you and you’re ready to commit to spending money on some climbing equipment.
Buying a climbing rack can be a pretty expensive business. However, thankfully, you can certainly spread the expense as you progress.
I have been climbing in my Red Chilli Impact Zone climbing shoes since early summer 2009. I bought them as a replacement for my trusty Boreal Jokers, which had developed a hole in the toes after a year to 18 months of hard use.
I have been using my Petzl Corax climbing harness since early last year. It has been a reliable and trustworthy piece of kit. I climb at least once per week, and the harness looks pretty much as good as new.
