What we like about it is that it doesn’t treat outdoor clothing as just gear. It treats it as culture. As design. As necessity. As something made by people trying to solve real problems in real places, often before anyone thought of calling it “outdoor style”.

Inside, there are studio shots of vintage garments, archive imagery, old adverts, brochures, labels, interviews and stories from the people behind the brands. It is visual, technical, nostalgic and very useful if you care about clothing, mountains, materials or the strange way a jacket can carry a whole period of culture inside it.

We recommend it because it sits close to many of the things we think about at Amunt: function, landscape, archive, construction, colour, and the quiet intelligence of garments made for being outside.

A book to read, look at, leave open on a table, or come back to when you need to remember that outdoor clothing was interesting long before it became an industry.