Mammut's Realization Pants

This year Swiss brand Mammut introduced its integrated Realization Shorts for climbers, featuring a built-in climbing harness.

Now, perhaps with the British climate in mind, Mammut is extending its range to include the Realization Pants, with full-length legs.

The new model is essentially a Zephir harness combined with a pair of lightweight, stretchy trousers.

The trousers have Mammut’s Split Webbing integrated into the waistband.

Both tie-in loops are indicator loops that show any damage and the trousers also have two gear loops at the sides, along with rear pockets and two side pockets offer storage for bits and bobs.

The garment is washable at 40C and will have men’s and women’s versions.

The Mammut Realization Pants were on show at the Kendal Outdoor Retail Show and will sell at £200 when they appear in the shops.

Mammut also had on show its ecologically friendly climbing rope.

The Mammut Transformer Rope

The Transformer offers surprise colour combinations because it is made from yarn that would otherwise be thrown away and no two ropes look the same.

Mammut explained that when yarn manufacturers are creating the kermantle material for ropes, there is always waste between the production of different colours.

Mammut has worked with the supplier to produce what it is calling pre-consumer recycled rope.

There’s no safety concern – the process doesn’t use recycled ropes, just the excess from the manufacturing process.

The Transformer single rope comes in 9.8mm thickness and 60m and 70m lengths, priced £130 and £150 respectively.