Rab Summit Extreme Jacket Review

Rab is proud to be supporting andrea mason on sea to summit extreme and with only a few weeks to go we caught up with andrea to ask why she was doing this unprecedented challenge how training was going and how she managed to break her arm not once but twice this year.

Rab summit extreme jacket review.

Another important feature of the nebula pro jacket is that whether you put this over or under your hardshell whilst having gloves on the cuffs are tight but stretch over even the biggest gloves keeping a tight fit. It is built for lightweight climbs in the most extreme alpine environments. Down insulated clothing men s rab summit jacket. The microlight summit jacket by rab is a high performance 750 fill power goose down jacket that is remarkably warm and effective at shielding against the elements.

This is one of the best down. The ever popular summit jacket is the perfect solution for when it gets really cold. The rab summit extreme tent is a new version of the nearly identical outdoor designs summit extreme that we reviewed in 2005. At 145 being the lowest i ve seen online.

Every so often we would be lured out of our habitual cycle by the call to prayer playing loudly from the mosque in the village far below. Rab product review microlight summit jacket the great outdoors february 2019 rab product review microlight summit jacket wired for adventure september october 2019 rab product review muztag gtx jacket trek mountain november december 2019. Kicking around basecamp huddled on a bivi ledge in the alps or on a winter belay stance the summit jacket ticks all the boxes. Featuring 750fp goose down and the innovative pertex quantum infinity.

I have washed the jacket twice in nikwax downwash and it has fluffed back up nicely. The summit has been a staple of the rab range for many years and continues to. The lower fill power of 750 fill reflects this but as an all round jacket for night time insulation or more extreme winter layering i find it hard to knock the microlight. Climb haul the bag belay off belay swap the rack repeat.

This makes the jacket water resistant and adds to wind resistance helping keep the weather out in extreme conditions. The closer we got to the summit fatigue set in and the more automated our actions became. The jacket is also excellently priced. Over the last four or so years rab has been on top of the technical fabric world churning out shell after category smashing shell.