Polartec Challenge Team Visits Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
Antarctica: The Frozen Frontier Queen Maud Land: the adventure starts in sun-soaked South Africa, in late spring. On the evening of November 11, 2012, a little after dinner hours, a group of men steadily forms in the back corner of the departures terminal of the Cape Town International Airport. Most are clad casually, in blue [...]
Biking and Paddling Across Asia-Polartec Challenge Style
“I found out I was being awarded the Grant in Zonguldak. It is a grim, coal-stained port on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, and I was in a shabby concrete room overlooking the slate sea, searching desperately for a bike shop over a 56k modem. My partner was outside, fixing a flat and cursing [...]
Polartec Scufoneda – In Pictures
(All photos courtesy of www.matteozanga.it)
Trip Report — Rimo III
Trip report compiled by: Malcolm Bass We arrived in Delhi on the 11th of August, having flown with all our kit as excess hold baggage. This meant that we could avoid the joys of Indian customs: on past trips we have spent at least two days liberating our freight from customs. Hold luggage is the [...]
Piolets d’Or and Polartec
The nominees for the 2013 Piolets d’Or (Golden Ice Axe) have been announced and Polartec® is hugely honored to have sponsored and outfitted 2 of the 6 expeditions nominated for this prestigious award. Since its inception in 1991, this has continually been the most distinguished award in the mountaineering world. Polartec® Challenge Winners Kyle [...]
Polartec Challenge Winner – Nobody’s River Campaign
Polartec Challenge Winner – Nobody’s River – needs your help! This all-women team of modern day adventur-ettes are embarking on an epic expedition this summer, paddling the Amur River in Asia. The Amur is a free-flowing river across northeast Asia beginning in Mongolia, passing through Russia, and into China. The 3-month-long journey will begin this [...]
Polartec® Alpha® coming to consumers fall 2013
We’re returning from the Outdoor Retailer, SIA and ISPO trade shows where we launched Polartec® Alpha®, the first-ever breathable puffy fabric, to media. It’s an entirely new class of fabric technology that rounds out Polartec’s offering of over 300 performance fabrics – from lightweight next-to-skin, to insulation, to extreme weather protection fabrics. Essentially, Polartec Alpha [...]
Polartec Challenge Grant Winner Climbs in the Russian Arctic
2012 Polartec Challenge Grant winner, Mike Libecki, has returned from the far northern Franz Josef Land in the Russian Arctic. Mike attempted several big walls in this polar bear-laden portion of the Arctic. Below is an excerpt from his trip report entitled “An Arctic Expedition Trilogy Perceived.” “Four hours passed and the fog finally [...]
Polartec Scufoneda Balderdash Giveaway
Happy Holidays Polartec fans! Seeing as everyone has their own DEFINITION of holiday traditions and how they ring in the winter season, we figured it was only fitting to play a little game of Balderdash as this week’s giveaway. For those of you unfamiliar with the game- you make up a definition for a gibberish [...]
Polartec First Snow Patagonia Giveaway
The first snows are falling all over the country in the past couple of weeks, ski resorts in Colorado are already opening and it is officially time to pull the winter gear out of mothballs and see what needs replacing (or washing). So we figured we would help a few of you upgrade your winter [...]
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