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HH supply Walking With The Wounded Everest team
After the great success of their North Pole expedition, Walking With The Wounded are at it again – this time trekking to Everest Base Camp, with a team of five servicemen continuing on to make an attempt on the summit itself. But what sort of kit are the team using to cope with the cold conditions in the Khumbu? Well, we spoke to official clothing partner Helly Hansen to find out exactly which pieces of … Read more »
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Wednesday Winners: Cicerone Chamonix guide
It’s Wednesday morning, so that means only one thing – we’re dishing out prizes from last week’s Friday Freebies competition, in which we offered you the chance to win one of 3 copies of Cicerone’s new Chamonix Mountain Adventures guidebook And the winners are… Patrick Taylor, Mark Huggins and Michael Scanlon. Congratulations guys! To claim you prize, email us your address to winners@trekandmountain.com and we’ll arrange for your book to be sent out. If you didn’t win … Read more »
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New Black Diamond headtorches
Black Diamond have two new headtorches out – one all new for 2012, and one an update of an existing model. The redesigned Icon is intended to provide maximum lighting in any weather condition and features balanced batteries in a completely waterproof housing. It has a meaty 200-lumen output and is equipped with one Quadpower LED, two Singlepower white LEDs and two SinglePower red LEDs. Settings include full strength in proximity and distance modes, dimming … Read more »
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Friday Freebies: Win a copy of Cicerone’s new Chamonix guide!
It’s not even available in the shops yet, but we have 3 copies of Cicerone’s Mountain Adventures Chamonix to give away – and you could win one of the first copies off the press! Chamonix, located in the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps, is the centre of the universe when it comes to alpine sports, and that’s why thousands of us descend on it every year to go rock climbing, skiing, mountaineering, mountain biking and … Read more »
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Tested: Trekmates Flameless Cook System Flask
A cooking system without a flame in sight? We investigate further… Trekmates’ Flameless Cook System (FCS) is touted as an alternative to carrying a stove and the range currently consists of the Flask, for heating up liquids, and the Cookbox which will do the same for pre-cooked food. We tried out the Flask and found it a breeze to use. Consisting of a stainless steel inner cup, and plastic outer, basically you pop a heatpack in … Read more »
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