Archived News & Reviews

30th June 2010

Joss Naylor MBE to start the Montane Lakeland 100

Joss Naylor MBE the legendary fell runner will be firing the starting gun of the Montane Lakeland 100. Joss was described by Chris Brasher as "the toughest runner in the world". Some of his achievemen...
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14th May 2010

Catlin Arctic Survey Ice Team arrive at North Pole

Congratulations to Ann, Charlie and Martin

The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 Ops team is pleased to announce that Ann, Charlie and Martin have made it to the Pole! After 60 gruelling days on the floating sea ice the team are currently taking their...
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26th April 2010

The Climbers Shop join fundraising initiative

Supporting Mountain Rescue England & Wales

We're very pleased to announce that the Limited Edition products to raise money for Mountain Rescue are now also available from The Climbers Shop in Ambleside. They have shown great support for the pr...
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24th April 2010

Singletrack Magazine Recommends Atomic Pants REVIEW

"Excellently invisible overtrousers"

Singletrack Magazine has reviewed the Atomic Pants and awarded them the coveted red seal of recommendation."Montane is one of our favourite outdoor clothing companies. It knows what works and what's i...
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6th April 2010

Stephen Pyke attempts to break Munros record

All the Munros under his own steam

Montane are pleased to announce that we will be supporting Stephen Pyke in his attempt to break the record for climbing all the Munros in a continous round. There have been a number of continuous roun...
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25th March 2010

Limited Edition Mountain Rescue fundraising products on sale now

They're going to go quick!

They're finally here.After a few delays (thanks to everyone for being patient) the Limited Edition products have gone on sale. So far we have raised over £8000 for Mountain Rescue England & ...
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22nd March 2010

Excellent result for Paul Errington in Yak Attack

Paul takes 6th in world highest MTB race

Paul Errington has completed the Yak Attack in Nepal in a total time of 28 hours, 55 minutes and 14 seconds, taking 6th place overall; and considering that the top 4 are all local riders (and hence ac...
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1st March 2010

Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 launched

Ice team choose Montane clothing

We're pleased to announce that the 2010 Catlin Arctic Survey mission has just been launched and the Explorer team and Scientific team will all be wearing Montane Extreme Smocks and Salopettes.The Expl...
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10th February 2010

Paul Errington completes coldest MTB race

135 miles through the wilderness

Congratulations to Paul Errington who finished the Arrowhead 135 winter ultra-marathon in northern Minnesota, USA, in the top 25! Pictured here in his Extreme Jacket (described by Paul as a 'portable ...
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28th January 2010

Lightest gear proves to be the best in Antarctica

Featherlite Smock proves to be worth it weight in gold!

Recently returned from the South Pole and following features on BBC News and the Today show on NBC in the US, Felicity Aston, Team Leader of the Kaspersky Commonwealth Womens Antarctic Expedition had ...
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4th January 2010

Commonwealth girls make it to the South Pole

They're on the bottom of the world, quite literally

A few words from Felicity Aston, Team leader...."Hello this is Felicity reporting that at 23:09 on the 29th of December the Kaspersky Labs Commonwealth Antarctica Expedition arrived at the Geographic ...
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22nd December 2009

Montane announce largest ever Mountain Rescue fundraising initiative

We've comitted to raise £50,000 for a very deserving cause

We are delighted to announce that a range of limited edition Montane products will go on sale in the spring of 2010 from which over 50% of the retail price will be donated to Mountain Rescue England &...
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4th December 2009

Good progress in Antarctica

Good weather and high spirits make for decent progress

A rare spell of kind weather and the team being in high spirits is making for good progess in Antarctica. At this rate the team could be at the South Pole on 1st January 2010. What a way to start the ...
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29th November 2009

Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition on Ice

Skiing over Meringue!

The Kaspersky Commonwealth Womens Antarctic Expedition is well underway now. Over 100kms under their belts of the approx 900, spirits are high despite Kim from Jamaica having to withdraw with severe f...
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16th November 2009

Nostalgia (not really news in the ordinary sense, but good fun anyway)

Classic stuff!

Just got this video link from one of the mountain leaders we work with. Click on the play icon to the right.It's John Cunningham and Creagh Dhu climbing The Cobbler in 1978. John is on Recess Route, c...
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28th October 2009

Coastal Raid 20 won by Team Adventure Sports Magazine

The most interesting adventure race Montane have had the pleasure to sponsor

The culmination of the Coastal Raid Series, the Raid 20 has been won by a team representing the relatively new magazine 'Adventure Sports'. Fought out over 2 days, 20 hours, over 100 miles and inclu...
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27th October 2009

Singletrack Magazine Waterproofs Review REVIEW

Velocity DT Jacket awarded the coveted seal of approval

We like Singletrack Magazine, (and not just because they write nice things about our gear, which they seem to like doing!) we think it's the best mountain biking magazine around at the moment, and we'...
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16th October 2009

Trail Magazine Waterproofs Special REVIEW

4 STAR RATING FOR ALL MONTANE JACKETS TESTED

Once again Montane jackets have done well in the annual Trail Magazine Waterproofs Special. All products featured scored a 4 star rating with the new Atomic DT 2.0 Jacket being awarded 'Trail Bes...
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6th October 2009

Montane sponsor Antarctic Expedition

Eight women from eight commonwealth countries with one aim. We're delighted to announce that the Kaspersky Commonwealth Women's Antarctic Expedition have chosen Montane to be their clothing s...
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