Last Winter, we took two sleeping bags built for colder climes out for an extended test. Here, Mountain Leader Lucy Wallace sets the scene for her review of a women’s-specific bag from Mammut, with our very own Chris Townsend covering a men’s bag from Rab

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Today, down jackets built for K2 are worn on the school run and premium waterproofs pop up in pubs. In their photo book, Max Leonard and Henry Iddon track down hard-as-nails but unheralded mountaineers and the fabric innovators who put them safely – and sometimes even stylishly – on summits to ask how we got here

HOW WE TESTED James tested these tents in ...