Ascent Knit Size:XL Channeling the leap of apparel
Baker’s notes & crumb story
Description
Channeling the leap of apparel innovation that occurred during the Golden Age of Alpinism
Made in the USA with a point of origin related to proper winter sweaters worn by America’s pioneering female skiers
a tailored trouser became as much a sophisticated element of a smart well-to-do ensemble as it was equipment enabling comfort across multiple climates and seasons
and offering an comfortable range of motion for scrambles and stretching to hard-to-reach holds
Ascent Knit Size:XL Channeling the leap of apparelAs versatile as the skills needed for the first ascents of Golden Age of Mountaineering are the garments that accompanied such 19th century climbs. Of such ensembles & equipment perhaps none was more important than the robust knitwear of the era. Appropriate at nearly any elevation and stage of upward route finding these sweaters created a wardrobe efficiency allowing ski mountaineers a single element of their kit that could simultaneously act as a