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Posted by calamity on February 22, 2008 at 8:11:22 pm EST

Horace Kephart lists an English camping kit weighing 6 pounds, that included tent, stove and cooking gear, down sleeping bag, mat, and a few other accessories of dubious value that could be safely discarded. My recent reprint edition of his book was copyrighted in 1917, although parts were published some years earlier.

So it's been 100 years, and contrary to lots of hype, weights for similar bare minimum kits are nearly unchanged. In the case of the sleeping bag and alcohol stove, at least, neither has functionality made huge gains.

I would like to read "Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers" published in 2003. This book "traces the evolution of clothing and equipment for outdoor activities, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day."

See also this page, related to authors' work:
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/news/malloryreplicas06/
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• Re: Ultralight 1917 - calamity 23:08:46 02/22/2008
• Re: Ultralight 1917 - kutenay 22:16:46 02/22/2008

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