Keeping hydrated and protected from the sun are really important at extreme altitude!
It takes the cooperation of many behind the scenes players to properly equip, support, provide logistics and fund an expedition of this size and representation. The Mountain Institute was fortunate to have a number of contributors. We wish to thank USAID, the National Science Foundation, The United States State Department, Adaptation Partnership, IRG, and ICIMOD. We would also like to acknowledge our corporate contributors and partners who provided products. We are grateful to The North Face, Sunday Afternoons, Polar Bottle, Natures Koffee Kettle and US Space Mobil Communications.
Nature's Coffee Kettle supplied us with their innovative new product for the outdoors:
Keeping hydrated and protected from the sun are really important at extreme altitude. The members of The Mountain Institute’s expedition to Imja Lake were hydrated with Polar water bottles and protected by Sunday Afternoons’ Adventure hats.
Several outdoor product manufactures provided products to support The Mountain Institute’s scientific expedition to Imja Lake. Northface’s waterproof Windwall gloves and fleece caps (and the tangerine Verto jackets featured in an earlier blog) kept us warm and dry. Nature’s Coffee Kettle supplied us with their innovative new product for the outdoors: America’s first “fresh coffee brewer in a bag,” so we could wake up each morning with fresh brewed coffee, tea, hot chocolate or cider and we kept hydrated with clean water carried in 24 oz insulated Polar Bottles.
Members of the Imja Lake Expedition give a "thumbs up" to two of the products used on the trek. Polar Bottle and Nature's Coffee Kettle We were happy to drink clean, cold water and hot brewed coffee at Imja Lake! --
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