There are many ways to wreck a pair of poles. My favoured approach is to pick a course back and forth across huge piles of unstable moraine whilst carrying a large and overloaded pack.
With that in mind, I took a pair of Leki's Tour Carbon 3 poles out on expedition to Tajikistan to give them a good beating. They are a high end pair of telescopic, three-piece poles aimed at both touring and mountaineering and this review is focused specifically on their use for trekking and mountaineering.
George Cave reviews these carbon trekking poles from Leki
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