The La Sportiva Spantik is a fantastic high altitude alpine climbing boot. It is warm, lightweight, and dexterous, and climbs snow, ice, and rock with relative ease. This is an excellent choice for your 6000m peaks and can be extended to higher and colder objectives with neoprene overboots.go to full review

The La Sportiva Nepal Cube is the best of a long line of mountain boots. Our testing team thinks of this boot like the Toyota Tacoma of mountain boots; it's not the fastest or lightest or the highest tech, but it will get you there. If it fits your foot, this is a good quiver-of-one boot. For those of you who can't wait for summer to be over, and find yourselves watching Steve House solo Repentance and Remission on YouTube over and over, this is your boot.go to full review

The Scarpa Mont Blanc Pro is a classic single leather boot that gets the job done. Newer boot designs are warmer, lighter, and faster to lace up. If this boot is a great fit for your foot, you may like its climbing performance better than we did. Our testers felt that this boot fit lower volume feet better than the Nepal Evo. While it's not outstanding in any department, we think its all around performance is good.go to full review

The lightweight mountaineering boot can be an incredibly useful tool for mountaineers who like to enjoy all four seasons and for climbers who's main focus is the rock climbing but like to get out in the mountains occasionally. Both of those groups will be rewarded by this boot's low weight and comfortable hiking performance. It also climbs reasonably well overall, with an above average showing at mixed climbing and dry tooling and on rock without crampons. In many ways, this boot reminds us..." go to full review

This boot is optimized for light and fast mixed and rock climbing. It's very light, and the uppers are built for mixed climbing performance. When it comes to colder days and steep ice, it's certainly functional, but not ideal. It's the analog to the Nepal Cube, a boot built for ice climbing that also works for mixed and rock climbing.go to full review

With its fancy materials and design, this boot is like a message from the future of what mountain boots will be. It's light, it's warm, and it's quick to put on and adjust. One thing it isn't, however, is water resistant. For some climbers that won't be a deal breaker. If this boot fits your foot and you think you won't be fording any streams or jumping in any puddles this could be the boot for you. Our testers found that this boot felt wider/higher volume in the forefoot than the Scarpa..." go to full review

Adherence to the pillars of the C.A.M.P. philosophy is present. These crampons are exceptionally lightweight and feature innovative design and technology. They are aggressively priced and steeped in history. If you are looking for a technical crampon whether it be for skiing, mountaineering, or alpine climbing, there isn’t a realm that this crampon doesn’t master. A highly functioning and attractive member of any technical climber’s quiver, these deserve a spot in your pack.go to full review

In conclusion; although the new 2019 Boreal Ninja bears no resemblance at all to the original 90’s versions they are bang up to date with all the modern features you would want in a modern climbing slipper. They have all the innovations of other performance models in the Boreal range and are a great shoe for bouldering and indoor climbing which would also be useful for hard sport climbing if you’re strong enough.go to full review

So, the 2018 updates are useful, the broader range of rope sizes is great and the up-rated cam does make a difference to the smooth action when lowering. The design tweaks on the plate fold over and handle are for aficionados and of course you should read all the documentation, watch the youtube videos and even practice using it if you are new to using a GriGri, and if you are thinking of upgrading from your original one this is well worth the money.go to full review

Straight out of the box I wore the Phantom 6000 for the trek over to Shelter Stone which turned out to be disappointingly black. After an abortive couple of pitches up Western Union we made the most of the day by a bit of a hike checking out possible future hits. So with the best part of 18kms done on their first outing I had zero blisters or discomfort barring a slight rubbing on my fat calves where my old sock came up a bit short of the gaiter top. The following couple of days I got used..." go to full review