Written in the 1940s about being in a mountain rather than conquering it. The finest argument against summit-thinking ever made.

Vitreous enamel over steel. Chips, and looks better for it.

Irish, family-made, and boils water with a handful of twigs. Fuel you never have to carry.

The hurricane lantern, made in Germany to the same pattern since 1902. Burns paraffin, survives anything.

German steel built for open fire. Heavy, and only sensible because something else carries it.

The plain one. Rewaxable indefinitely, and the only Barbour that has never been a fashion object.

Austrian loden, boiled and fulled until it turns weather. Nobody in American outdoor retail is drawing on this tradition.

The European field tradition done properly. Laksen anchors this side of the store the way White's anchors the other.