Rab - for the most extreme conditions in the world

RAB work with professionals who operate in the mountains every month of the year. Our products help them achieve world firsts, and they help us by thoroughly testing RAB kit in the most extreme conditions in the world.

Gary Rolfe
Gary has a totally committed approach to his life of solo arctic journeys with dogs, travelling through some of the most remote and extreme locations on earth in a style that relies on the performance and quality of the gear he chooses to use. After years of using RAB he provides continual feedback to help with the development of all our cold weather kit.

www.garyrolfe.com

Jeff Mercier
Lives in Chamonix and works as a mountain guide and rescue instructor for the PGHM. Jeff is a highly talented climber across many disciplines; winning the 2008 Ouray Ice Festival and the first spur-less ascent of one of the world hardest mixed routes, Jedi Mind Tricks, near Lake City, Colo, a route that Mercier confirmed to be rated M14.

Leanne Callaghan
Leanne is a North Wales based climber and mountaineer, a true all rounder with endless enthusiasm for cragging, ice climbing, Alpine ascents, fell running and expeditions to remote new routes. In 2004 Leanne started using RAB gear through a range of these activities, providing durability testing, photographs and feedback on the development of RAB womens clothing. In the summer of 2004 Leanne led an expedition to Pamiagdluk Island, Southern Greenland and established three high quality new rock routes on the Baron.

Lost Patrol 100 is a dogsledding expedition from Herschel Island in the Beaufort Sea to Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a distance of roughly a thousand miles. It commemorates the lives of the ‘Lost Patrol’, a group of four Royal North-West Mounted Police who, in the winter of 1910-11, lost their way while mushing along this same route during a routine police patrol. In temperatures that dropped to minus 54C, they ran out of food, then ate their dogs one by one. The first three men starved to death. The fourth shot himself; speculation supposes he was terrified of the temptations of cannibalism.

Maya Sherpa
Maya started climbing because she wanted to make a difference and change the way people think about woman in Nepal. Now with several formidable peaks under her belt she has also achieved many first Nepali woman accents. Her goal is to climb many more peaks and become an official guide. She wants to use climbing to change the traditional position of Nepalese woman and help her country to develop.

Nils Nielsen
Nils Nielsen loves all kinds of outdoor activities, but his passion is for climbing. Nils is happiest in the mountains, on long routes with snow, ice and rock. His climbing has taken him many places in the world, but living in Romsdalen, Norway he have all he can dream of in his backyard, both summer and winter. Nils earns his living as a mountain guide, and he is now an aspirant guide (IFMGA/UIAGM).

Including all his climbing in Norway, Nils has put up new routes in Nepal and Scotland, alpine climbing with solo ascents up to M5 and many ascents on Yosemite bigwalls, including solo ascent of El Capitan.

Rich Cross
As one of Britain's top Alpinists Rich has pushed both himself and his gear to its limits on such ground breaking first ascents as the SE ridge of Ama Dablam, Nepal, and on world classics such as the Moonflower Buttress in Alaska.

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Tom Richardson
After a Scottish and Alpine apprenticeship, Tom Richardson began climbing in the Himalaya in 1979.Since that time he has climbed extensively around the world and has been on more trips to the Greater Ranges than his age (52years, 55trips). This includes expeditions to 7 8000m peaks across the Himalaya and Karakoram, both leading commercial groups and climbing with friends .His favourite trip is, he says, usually the one he has just come back from, irrespective of whether it is from a remote corner of western Mongolia or Pakistan or leading a commercial group up Mera Peak in Nepal.