News

5 August 2011

The American Alpine Institute will present eleven awards to eight different companies at the annual Outdoor Summer Retailer Show in Salt Lake City. The equipment and clothing awarded the AAI Guides Choice designation have proven to be the highest quality in their product category. The awards are determined on the basis of excellence in design, performance, and durability demonstrated in rigorous international field tests conducted by the professional guides of AAI. Evaluations are made throughout the year in the desert, cold weather, rain, snow, high wind and in high altitude environments.

http://alpineinstitute.blogspot.com/2011/08/guides-choice-award-outdoor-retailer.html

One of the awarded equipments was the Tupek Guide from Ortik with the following review:

"The Tupek provided piece of mind to our guides climbing in Alaska that at any point they could deploy a two-person shelter and escape from the wind and blowing snow within the matter of a minute or two. At 525 grams and the size of a 1 liter water bottle, it was small and light enough that our testers had no problems packing it along on any fast and light ascent that they were doing. The Tupek can be set up using a variety of configurations including with or without trekking poles, one or two people, and can even be hung from a wall. The floor of the Tupek is joined at the middle with velcro, but can be separated and pushed to the sides in the event that the user is wearing crampons. A small foot well can even be dug in snow so that the users can sit facing each other comfortably. If an overnight bivy is inevitable, two people can stretch out in reasonable comfort reclined against their packs. A door on one side makes getting in and out easy, and multiple vents keep condensation to a minimum inside".

6 June 2010

High Mountain Shop was present and supported, as a partner, the Czech Academic Games, in Prague, Czech Republic.

The biggest Academic sports event took place on from the 6 until the 12 of June, and had the participation of 2.300 athletes, from 37 Czech Colleges.

This event gathered athletes from many sports, such as rock climbing, tennis, football, basketball, etc..

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15 March 2010

On the middle of March 2010 Joe Puryear and David Gottlieb made the First Ascent of Takargo! See in action the Jet Stream 2 bomb proof tent of Ortik!

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