I treated myself to one of these for my birthday last year. It's bloody great, really warm, fits my gangly arms well....as well as doing some Scottish mountain days, I've pretty much worn it at home and out and about every day since! I'm sure it's going to live in my crag bag for summer as well. Pricey at RRP, but has been on sale.
It sounds very nice. But what an extraordinary name for something you wear when mountaineering! Yes, I know it’s probably named after a notorious route on the Grandes Jorasses, but that (“Le Linceul”) is named for its visual resemblance to a winding sheet for a corpse. Creepy.
A segment in tonight's episode of Channel 4's investigative series Dispatches exposes the sale of uncertified budget climbing gear online - carabiners in particular - via the shopping platform Temu, a Chinese app with...