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Alpine Tents - Advice please 19-Feb-2008 At 10:13:12 AM vwills

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I cant vouch for them now, but I bought a 2 person Fairydown Altimate. It was pretty light (under 3kg) and robustly stood up to a few blizzards throughout 2005. Much better than a Minaret and would squeeze 3 in in an emergency. Quick to pitch, but had to do the inner first. I lived in it for about 120 days that year and on quite a few trips since. The floor is no longer water repellant so it needs a ground sheet. The company at the time, Artheur Ellis, was also good and sent new pegs and a pole to Chile after a pole got injured. There is nothing wrong with the pegs (it was my climbing partner trying to hammer them into water ice on a glacier). The pole had a small longitudinal split in the aluminium. Had no problems with it since replacement.