Everest Kit List - Everest Expedition
This is a comprehensive list you will know what items of clothing and equipment you regularly use and what works well for you.
La Sportiva Spantik
[ ] Double layer mountaineering boots. Please DO NOT bring Scarpa Alphas – I know that they are now an old model and there aren’t many around but they simply are not warm enough. The Scarpa 6,000ers are a little bit on the light side and also aren’t warm enough. What you actually need, if you like Scarpa, is the Scarpa 7,000er – but they don’t make one. <anchor>La Sportiva Spantik</anchor>, La Sportiva G2 SM, Boreal G1 Lite etc are all fit for purpose. These are not an absolute necessity as they will be used to C2 and, perhaps on a rotation to C3. But they are lightern than 8,000m boots (which are an absolute necessity – see below). As a point of interest there are more Climbing Sherpas using G2 SMs up to Camp 3 on Everest than any other make and model of boot. That, to me, has got to be one of the best votes of confidence in a boot that there is.