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Our Pro Team athletes help us test and develop our gear.
Going faster, higher, steeper, harder is what drives them, and is reflected in the clothes we make.
TIM HOWELL
base jumper | skier | climber
46.2044° N, 6.1432° E
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"I’d decided by this stage that I’d turn my focus to becoming the first person to climb and then BASE jump all of the ‘classic’ six North Faces of the Alps"
WILLIS MORRIS
speedwing pilot | Climber
56.6826° N, 5.1023° W
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"Conquering the biggest, baddest, pointiest part of the mountain and then shredding back down in a matter of seconds. For me, it is all about the most challenging way up and the gnarliest way down."
anna wells
mountaineer | climber
57.4778° N, 4.2247° W
"I left my career as a doctor, and after a couple of years living in the French Alps, have returned to my roots in the Scottish Highlands where I work full time as a climbing and mountaineering instructor."
JOHN THORNTON
skier | climber
47.1296° N, 10.2682° E
"I set my sights on the region’s steepest freeride and ski mountaineering test-pieces. Often soloing, it allowed me to evolve my limits and see different possibilities in the mountains."
MIKE PESCOD
Climber | SKIER
56.8198° N, 5.1052° W
"Winter climbing here in Scotland is such a great mix of physical and mental challenge, demanding the full range of mountaineering skills as well as climbing technique. It’s a tough playground but all the more rewarding for that."
TOM GRANT
STEEP SKIER | climber
57.4778° N, 4.2247° W
"This passion for steep skiing has led me to technical first descents in the Alps, Baffin Island, British Columbia, Norway and more. In Autumn 2017 I skied the first descent of the 2,000 meter Caroline Face on Mt. Cook, one of the world’s largest unskied lines."
LEGEND MAGAZINE
Latest Pro Team Articles
MIKE PESCOD
A RECKONING
"It was like a shot being fired from a gun right in front of us, with a sensation of movement in the ice. The crack wrapped its way around..."
TIM HOWELL
AIRBORNE ON ACONCAGUA
"Practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect, but it does make permanent so I’ve made sure to practice perfectly."
MIKE PESCOD
RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS
"This was an unexpected gift, a random act of kindness, and was all the more memorable."
TOM GRANT
AFTER THE TALIBAN
"I feel fortunate to be able to align my passion with my work; yet a simmering frustration lingered from the difficulties of the past two years."
TIM HOWELL
WAR AND PISTE
"I’ve had more friends die in the mountains than on the battlefield."
ANNA WELLS
FIVE BEN NEVIS RIDGES IN A DAY
"A super-sized playground, with limitless potential for scrambling, rock climbing and ice climbing."
THE STUFF OF LEGEND
THE JÖTTNAR ADVENTURE JOURNAL
Inspiration from the world’s wild places.
Iconic Routes: Guides, Stories, Personal Experience
TOM GRANT
MATTERHORN NORTH FACE
"It was the first of the six ‘great north faces’ of the Alps to be climbed"
TOM GRANT
WHYMPER COULOIR
"The Whymper still demands the utmost respect from even the strongest teams."
MIKE PESCOD
ORION DIRECT
"Ice screws will be run-out at best and sometimes placed more for decoration than for effectiveness."
ANNA WELLS
CUILLIN RIDGE IN WINTER
"An enigma of knife edge ridges unlocked by complex route finding."
TIM HOWELL
DRU NORTH FACE
"The climbing feels endless as it weaves its way through an impossible-seeming amount of granite."
MIKE PESCOD
CUILLIN RIDGE
"You are reminded at every glance of the isolation of being on a committing peak, on an island, off a remote coast, far away."
TOM GRANT
THE MALLORY ROUTE
"To open the Mallory requires supreme skill, confidence and solid experience. It remains a game for elite skiers."
TIM HOWELL
EIGER NORTH FACE
“...an obsession for the mentally deranged...”
- Alpine Journal editor Edward Lisle Strut - 1938
TOM GRANT
VALLÉE BLANCHE
"For all who ski it, there's a joy to be had in deep and untracked powder following a heavy snowfall."
JOHN THORNTON
EIGER WEST FLANK
"You’re just one wrong turn from the North Face here, so it really pays to be cautious."
WILLIS MORRIS
ARÊTE DU DIABLE
"Descending after long routes is always the worst part. Unless, of course, you can fly."
