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Best new product award

Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the recent OutdoorsMagic Readers Awards. We won Best New Product 2005 for our entire product range! and came 3rd in Best Online Retailer behind Field and Trek and Cotswold. Needless to say we are pretty pleased. Full results

Alpkit podcast on BackpackingLight

We were there just minding our own business when this tall chap turns up wanting to record an interview with Alpkit. Not just any old interview but one of those new fangled ‘podcasts’, he wanted the scoop. The team quickly pulled together, considered the options and suggested he return in the afternoon when an unsuspecting Nick would be around.

Material Innovation

You cannot sleep well if you are not comfortable, and if you have not slept well you cannot enjoy your outdoor days. For years sleeping mats have promised much but have delivered little, that is until now. New developments in old technology look set to change the way we sleep forever.

Alpkit nominated in Outdoors Magic Readers Awards

We are thrilled to have been nominated for 2 categories in the OutdoorsMagic 2005 readers awards. Our entire range has been put forward as Best New Outdoors Product of the Year! and secondly we crop up under the Best Online Outdoors Retailer. Thanks to everyone who has put us forward, it is a buzz to know we are doing something right. You can place your votes online now.
OutdoorsMagic Readers Awards

Outdoors Show - AlpPod competition results

Congratulations to Nicky Smith who has won our final customised IPod Nano.

Alpkit invited to headline LSMC dinner!

Yup, we have been invited to dinner by the good people at Loughborough Student Mountaineering Club. The big feast takes place in Caernarfon on the first weekend in March so we willl be packing our overnight bags and heading across, not really sure what to expect..

Carbon shortage

Well we have done it again, we are out of stock of yet another product. So what has gone wrong this time?

We are seeing the first signs of a global shortage of carbon fibre. The cause of this has been put down to rising petroleum costs and the increased demands of industries such as wind-farms and the aerospace industry (in particular the Airbus A380 and Boeing 7E7 Dreamliner). We were hoping that by giving our suppliers more time we might be able to get a better price. This has not happened and if we were to go ahead with our order our pole price would not just increase, it would actually double! this would put us in is the same price bracket as MSR and Trekmates. In our opinion carbon fibre poles are not worth more than £50, so until we can secure this price we will not reorder.
We are now looking at some alternatives including, Carbon-Alu mix which is where the carbon is woven over an aluminium core and also some 7000 series Aluminium poles. For hard core CarbonLite fans we have managed to get hold of some overruns from our last production, these will have to be sold at a higher price as we will be air freighting them and the factory want to charge us more for the materials. We are not happy about this but we have not got an alternative. These should be available within two weeks. If you would like to reserve a pair email us because these will be strictly first come first served.
We are hoping we can get some Carbon/Aluminium poles in stock ASAP, but this is not likely to be for at least 6 weeks. In the meantime we still have some spares available for existing CarbonLite owners.

PipeDream sleeping bags now available

We are proud to announce that our new lightweight Pertex Quantum sleeping bags are now available. There are two bags in the range that starts at £100.

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