Distant mountains calling us into the embrace of her, however, appreciate the beauty of mountains, beyond the self-experience the feelings, we still have to face the forces of nature, to protect themselves, the goal is to achieve the mission of professional climbing equipment. When we travel on the snow-capped in ice walk on the rocks, in the struggle steep climbing, we can rely on is our courage, technology, and a pair of warm and comfortable, the superior performance of thealp shoes.
Modern mountaineering activities in Europe originated in the Alps region, the development of 200 years, the history of mountaineering and climbing shoes, as old as the first general wear hiking shoes and heavy boots is no different, but as more people climb higher more difficult to climb more and more emphasis on improvement of equipment. Later, the development of mountaineering expedition and conquest of its mean very strong, and even extended to the political level, to the fifties of the last century, people in the Himalayan mountain peak 8000 meters of fighting. Extreme and harsh as a result of the high altitude, it is the development of the siege of the mountain style, this style of climbing in the cold requirements of the long-term living environment, all of the equipment are of extreme warmth and durability for the purpose of design, the new double plastic boots in the context of this development. In recent decades, gradually climbing to the "campaign" closer, not only climbers to the summit as the goal and challenge themselves, the spirit of continuous improvement of the sports more and more activities to infiltrate the mountain. Climbing technology, new materials, new technological advances make it possible also with each passing day alp shoes. No matter what kind of climbling, they all have some common features and functions, while their differences so that they have a distinct personality.
Allalp shoes(Moutaineering Boot), both to protect and climbing functions as the goal, focus on "climbing" rather than "go" performance, soalp shoesand general walking shoes(Hiking / Treking Boot) compared to a more hard, warm .
Include thermal protection, the protection of the foot to avoid injury. The most important thing is warm water, wet feet cause frostbite. Include the protection of the toes,
ghd, arch, ankle protection, such as: the protection of the toe in, frontalp shoesare relatively hard for the toes to provide a safe space, and ensure smooth acral blood circulation, while avoiding the complexity of rock terrain of injury or injury; some of the previous lap the soles of the feet have rubber edges, the better protection of their own toes and boots; in order to protect the arch, with boots at the end of the use of soft and flexible materials, can be fully absorbed complex terrain road vibration;alp shoesare all high-help and upper to provide adequate ankle support to avoid Wei feet in shoes to help other high crampon when climbing the first tooth to help with the foot fixed the relative positions of the lower leg, reducing leg fatigue.
Climbing functionalp shoesreflected in the soles are very hard (almost non-deformed), can provide adequate support, and can climb the ice and snow and ice to match the use of grasping; In addition, very small scale rock edge, the hard soles are also very useful, as long as the location of step with toes stable footing, you can use as climbing crampon teeth he first to stand up the same. In order for the sole sufficient rigidity, is usually embedded in the soles of the support of a hard skeleton, such as steel or carbon fiber.
In addition to these features,
bikini,alp shoeshighly specialized for different purposes, and all were developed in different directions.alp shoesamong the most notable difference is the materials, mainly from the material into plastic boots and boots, there are a small number of models using composite materials, different materials determines the scope of their differences. From the use of speaking, the general quickly climbing into two major categories of exploration and expedition.
Explorer long time as a result of the expedition to climb the slow progress, so the requirements of waterproof boots, better thermal performance. Double plastic boots more prominent in this regard. Outside the natural plastic boots with good water-proof, heat insulation effect. Inside the boots is normally provided by a sponge foam or fiber insulation materials, and some older models are also useful or wool blend material. Different materials of different thermal insulation properties, the most remarkable bubble chamber is closed, its air chamber between the air flow cavity, reduces the maximum air convection caused by heat. In addition, plastic boots have a unique advantage of the tent into the boots can be dressed in activities can also be used to sleep at night into sleeping bag inside the shoe so as to maintain the warm and dry inside the boots and wear comfortable, very convenient to use. Double plastic boots are more bloated shortcomings bulky to wear in the snow line looks a bit strange, and inconvenient to carry and transport; another relatively plastic hard shell boots, in line with higher technical difficulty, the boots feel as sensitive .
In contrast, the history of corticalalp
shoesAlps almost as old as the history of mountaineering, the best
boots almost all concentrated in the Alps around the traditional footwear industry in Europe countries such as Italy and Spain, etc.; In addition, in recent years some U.S. products in the domestic or factory in Southeast Asia, but their quality and difficult to i
nfluence and those in Europe compared to brand-name.
Although the long history of boots, but with the development of mountaineering and scientific and technological progress,alp shoescortex has also been given a new concept. In general, the boots look beautiful, as beautiful works of art or avant-garde "Yapi" clothing; boots than relatively soft plastic boots, so to get a better sense of shoes, more suitable for demanding technical line; other boots of light weight, shape and more "slim", which made it on foot under the snow line will be highlighted in the advantages of a home or even be able to wear it. In order to obtain good performance, boots more and more complex production process, its high price. The boots are usually single-layer, waterproof warm boots that need to be addressed is the biggest problem. In order to warm water, using a lot of boots means: first, the outer surface of the water craft use, such as silicone oil Baptist cortex, or call agent, such as follow-Tu, so that surface water can greatly reduce the situation; Secondly, boots are still in the majority of the whole package together with the waterproof breathable lining material, most notably Gore-Tex material, in addition to Sympetex (a PTFE-PTFE membrane) and other materials; In addition, the internal use of the species of warm fibers, such as the famous 3M Thinsulate material for thermal effects. In general the winter or a long period of not quickly climbing activities, boots can be a wide range of applications.
There are a few models of boots also have a two-tier, such as the Boreal G1, these double-boots of the design intent is not only retained the characteristics of sensitive boots, but also improves the comfort of warmth, but time is short because of the introduction of specific performance to be test. There is also a small number of boots using the latest composite materials, such as Kevlar (the famous "bullet-proof cloth") fiber uppers, with soft and tough, wear-resistant easy to maintain the advantage, but these boots composite price more expensive