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ATHLETE AMBASSADORS


Essential to our company, our athlete ambassadors test, critique and tell stories about our ultralight outdoor gear. They are the top guides, ice climbers, pack rafters, multi-discipline adventurers, ski mountaineers, thru hikers and backpackers in their fields. They provide us with invaluable input as they put our gear through its paces, and they shape the final results of our purpose-driven packs and shelters. We build minimalist, ultralight gear designed to be used, hard. Because we know where gear that doesn’t meet their needs and expectations ends up. And that’s in a corner somewhere, gathering dust.

 

Angela “Van Stein” VanWiemeersch, Ice/Mixed Climber, Explorer

Going light isn’t always glamorous, says hardcore mixed and alpine climber Angela VanWiemeersch, especially when you’re sleeping in a bush wrapped up in a tarp like a taco. “But when your pack weighs 12 pounds, the places you can hike to are limitless, and your adventure becomes worth more than the tangible.” VanWiemeersch adopted a lightweight philosophy early on in order to bike 1400 miles solo, from Michigan to Canada and paddle 430 miles, unsupported on the Mackenzie River, Canada. More recently she became the first woman to free solo Ham and Eggs on the Moose's Tooth, Alaska; and she’s put up first ascents in Zion National Park and on Mount Hayes, Alaska. Her advice, “Keep it simple so staying in transit is easy.” Read about VanWiemeersch’s first ascent on Mount Hayes.

 

Angela “Van Stein” VanWiemeersch, Ice/Mixed Climber, Explorer

Going light isn’t always glamorous, says hardcore mixed and alpine climber Angela VanWiemeersch, especially when you’re sleeping in a bush wrapped up in a tarp like a taco. “But when your pack weighs 12 pounds, the places you can hike to are limitless, and your adventure becomes worth more than the tangible.” VanWiemeersch adopted a lightweight philosophy early on in order to bike 1400 miles solo, from Michigan to Canada and paddle 430 miles, unsupported on the Mackenzie River, Canada. More recently she became the first woman to free solo Ham and Eggs on the Moose's Tooth, Alaska; and she’s put up first ascents in Zion National Park and on Mount Hayes, Alaska. Her advice, “Keep it simple so staying in transit is easy.” Read about VanWiemeersch’s first ascent on Mount Hayes.