LA SPORTIVA G5 MOUNTAINEERING BOOT REVIEW

For many durability is one of the main requirements of a winter mountaineering boot, you’ll often hear people wax lyrically about having this or that boot for 10 years or more… “and they’re still going strong!”. The fact they only wear them for their one trip of the year may have something to do with that. However, it is important when investing the price of a climbing holiday to Spain in your footwear. You want them to last. In testing, I did manage to tear the upper of the Cordura gaitor. The boots it seems are no match for an uncovered abalakov threader. Fair enough. Slightly more concerning is the wear, again to the gaiter, that is caused by the tension over the Boa dial. The sole and the new rand feel great, the sole doesn’t pick up snow like the Scarpa equivalents. The rand felt super solid when mixed climbing, the boot wedges in cracks and off-widths giving great confidence. There were very little signs of wear.