Extremely Lightweight Elite is constructed from a 20D nylon base as well as 20D Nylon ripstops, keeping the fabric lightweight & durable.
Enhanced Durability Not only do the 20D nylon ripstops enhance tear resistance, but nylon offers an impressive tensile strength for the weight.
3-4 Season Protection Thanks to it’s 4000mm Hydrostatic Head, silicone coating and taped seams – Elite will comfortably keep you sheltered across all seasons, whether it’s dry and cold or sustained wet conditions.
Providing a level of thermal protection without the bulk
Engineered to be breathable whilst still offering a level of thermal protection.
The single layer, heat-retentive design allows for greater dexterity - making thermal items adaptable across multiple winter sports and outdoor activities.
Packable
High performance whilst being compact and stowable
Products designed to compress down and stow away when you don't need them, and deploy at a moments notice for when you do.
Using packable items reduces the need for a large pack, keeping you lighter on the trail and helping with marginal gains.
PitchLite
The lightest way to pitch a tent
Products with this icon are compatible with the PitchLite system, enabling flysheet‑only pitching for fast, lightweight shelter deployment.
Lighter pack weight
Smaller carry size
Maximised flysheet space
FlexiPorch
Variable configurations for better living solutions
Features an adjustable toggle system that allows you to tailor the porch size to suit alternating situations and storage needs.
Customisable living space
Stablises groundsheet walls
Maximise storage or living space
PoleLock
Add more stability in high wind environments
Products with this icon can be used with our PoleLock accessory, designed to add structural support to flysheet‑first pitching tunnels and non‑freestanding tents. Suitable for poles up to 9mm in diameter.
Additional Stability
Easier Pitching
Better Wind Protection
X-Dry Stretch
Waterproof, breathable, flexible
4‑way stretch waterproof fabric offering complete weather protection with enhanced flexibility, comfort, and freedom of movement
Engineered for the Elements
Waterproof & breathable membrane
Allows for greater dexterity
Retains warmth in cold, wet weather
From heavy downpours to freezing winds, X-Dry stretch ensures you stay perfectly dry and comfortably warm from the inside out
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DAC Green Anodized Poles
Eco-conscious engineering from the world leader in tent pole technology.
We exclusively feature DAC Green Anodized poles in our premium tent range to deliver world-class strength and weight savings with a radically reduced environmental footprint.
Material: Exclusive TH72M aluminum alloy, providing the highest strength-to-weight ratio in the industry.
Green Technology: The Anodising process completely eliminates nitric and phosphoric acids, utilizing a closed-loop water recycling system to protect both the environment and the craftspeople who build them.
Ultralight Design: Precision swaged at both ends to shed every unnecessary gram without compromising structural integrity.
The gold standard for performance and a sustainable future.
Ultra-lightweight flexibility. Trim weight. Go further.
Designed by our product specialists to offer ultimate versatility for fast-paced adventures, the FastPack system allows you to dramatically reduce your rucksack’s weight and bulk. By using a dedicated footprint in place of an inner tent, you transform your shelter into a high-performance, minimalist waterproof bivi-style setup.
Modular Weight Saving: Leave the inner tent at home when conditions permit to shave significant grams and volume from your pack.
Weatherproof Protection: The system utilises a footprint that covers the entire area under the flysheet, including the porch, providing a clean, dry sleeping area.
Structural Integrity: The footprint is precision-engineered to provide the essential tension and anchor points required for the poles, ensuring the tent remains stable and secure.
On 10 May 1983, four climbers stood on the summit of Manaslu North (7,200m) in the Nepal Himalaya. It was the first British ascent of the peak, made by a Joint Services team drawn from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and RAF. What follows is the expedition’s own account, taken from the field report: a fifteen-day walk in, a season of relentless weather, one summit bid turned back within reach of the top, and the Wintergear tents that stood through all of it.
The Manaslu range, seen from the Tibetan border northeast of the Larkya La.
We were an unusual party. The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Mountaineering Club had joined forces with the RAF Mountaineering Association, and the peak the Nepalese authorities allocated us was the North Peak of Manaslu, 23,500ft, in an area that was normally remote and hard of access. It had had no British ascents, and reports of an earlier Dutch expedition were vague. It was an exciting challenge to try for a peak about which so little was known.
The walk in took fifteen days from the road head at Trisuli. We set off with 170 porters straight into the Hindu festival of colour, and if you were not careful you ended up covered in red dye. The route followed the Buri Gandaki, hot and steep by turns, past villages and wire bridges and long climbs over treeless spurs, with an armed escort through the bandit country near the head of the valley. Fifteen days later we reached the traditional Manaslu Base Camp at 12,650ft, an old summer yak-herding area below the glacier.
View from Base Camp up the first icefall towards Camp 1.
From Base Camp the route ran up through the icefall to Camp 1 at 16,200ft, on to an Advanced Base Camp on the Naike Col at 18,300ft, and then up the Manaslu glacier towards the North Col. We were carrying two Wintergear Super Diamond tents, and it was at the Naike Col that they earned their reputation. The col is a particularly exposed spot, taking the full force of the wind and continual spindrift, and the two tents stood there for the better part of a month.
“These tents were unanimously considered to be outstanding. In very high winds, the poles actually inverted, but the tent regained its original shape.”
Advanced Base Camp on the Naike Col, at 18,300ft. featuring the tent that would become The Quasar
The weather was against us for most of the expedition. We had days on end of heavy snow, days when we could not see fifty metres, and nights of storm-force wind on the col. Camp 3 was established at around 22,000ft, and on 1 May the first summit team left it before dawn. Within a few hundred feet of the top, a huge powder-snow avalanche roared down one side of us, missing us with its main fury but taking away several of our marker poles. With great reluctance we turned back. It was a lucky escape. Camp 3 itself was later lost to avalanche, and with it any hope of a quick second attempt from high on the mountain.
We came down, rested at Base Camp, and waited for the weather. When it finally settled we went back up, and on 10 May a team of four, Pat Parsons, Charlie Hattersley, Terry Moore and Dougie Borthwick, left the top camp for the summit. This is Parsons’s account of that day.
Lt Parsons on the ridge, just below the summit.
The going was easy angled, but the deep soft snow meant the trail breaker had to change every five minutes or so. From the North Col we got our first clear sight of the ridge leading to the summit. It went well enough at first, but the storm clouds from Annapurna soon rolled in, and thunder began to generate itself around us.
“Thunder was now generating itself around us and the air charged with electricity which actually made our metal ice axes hum and buzz in our hands.”
After a few false summits, at ten past twelve, the mountain finally fell away on all sides. We were there. I climbed the last few feet to the cornice and banged in my axe for a belay, and the shock was enough to send the whole summit block thundering down the East face. A quick radio call to Advanced Base told them we had done it, and we started the long descent, careful not to lower our guard, because most mountain accidents happen on the way down. Four of us had reached the top. Everyone came home, and there were no casualties.
The tents came down with us. At the end of the trip, heavily iced into their platforms, we dug them out and carried them off the mountain along with everything else. The Wintergear Super Diamonds had held through a full Himalayan season on one of the most exposed cols on the peak, and the leader’s verdict on his own tent, written in the field, was simply that it was the best he had ever used.
Lt Col G D B Keelan RM, expedition leader, and Lt P H Parsons RM
Drawn from the report on the Joint Services East Nepal Expedition 1983 to Manaslu North, written by members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Mountaineering Club and the RAF Mountaineering Association. The Wintergear Super Diamond tents used on the expedition were made by Wintergear, the company founded by Ben and Marion Wintringham that went on to become Terra Nova Equipment.
