Namaste from Everest Base Camp!
With the Everest Summit Season in full swing, our friends at Peak Promotions Nepal have been busy lately. UK photographer Christian Kober is on the mountain and making preparations with his support team for his summit attempt. From his latest update: The camp has been moved uphill a little, as the kitchen tent was blown away [...]
Australian Outdoor Magazines Feature SteriPEN Freedom
Our friends at Sea to Summit, the esteemed Australian purveyor of outdoor goods, passed along a nice couple of SteriPEN press hits from Down Under. Outer Edge magazine focuses on the ways of the Aussie Adventurer, reviewing and recommending gear to help those bold souls push past boundaries. Australian Geographic Outdoor is a source of inspiration for [...]
The Restless Collective Crosses the Andes with SteriPEN
Biking from Alaska to Chile is no small feat. But for Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow, of the Restless Collective, it is only one leg of the journey. Since 2010, the two have been pedaling the globe, cameras in hand, hearts wide open, meeting people and sharing their stories. We heard from them recently after they had [...]
Krudmeister’s Bike, Hike and Paddle from Reno to the Bering Sea
This summer Adam Bradley (a.k.a. Krudmeister) is going on an Adventure (yes, with a capital ‘A‘). The record-holding fastpacker (and longtime SteriPEN user) will traverse the North American wilderness from his home in Nevada north through Canada, across Alaska to the mouth of the Yukon River at the Bering Sea. Bike: 2,847 miles Hike: 33 miles Canoe: [...]
Updates from SteriPEN in Nepal
Our friends at Peak Promotions Nepal have been busy this spring with a number of expeditions, including several Everest summit attempts. As a government-recognized trekking and mountaineering agency, they support individuals, teams and film crews on Himalayan expeditions and are long-time SteriPEN users. Currently there are two Everest expeditions in progress, one by members from the [...]
SteriPEN Freedom Reviewed on HikingLady.com
SteriPEN already had a loyal fan in the Hiking Lady, even before the Freedom came out. She was an early convert, having owned the original Classic and upgrading it for an Adventurer Opti. With the release of the Freedom and its built-in USB-rechargeable battery she took the opportunity to highlight the newest available features. An [...]
Adventurer Opti at Work in the Amazon
Our friends Mike and Anne Howard have taken an interesting approach to the traditional post-nuptial celebratory vacation known familiarly as the “honeymoon.” Feeling an acute need to reconcile enjoy and improve the world, the two set out to visit dozens of countries around the world with some gear (including a SteriPEN Adventurer Opti) and only [...]
SteriPEN Recommended in India Travel Guide
Travelers in India know to proceed with caution when it comes to drinking water. Public water supplies are rarely potable, buying water bottled in plastic produces tremendous waste and doesn’t even guarantee cleanliness. In her book, Enjoying India: The Essential Handbook, author J.D. Viharini heartily recommends SteriPEN’s UV purification of contaminated water. “Portable purifiers that use [...]
SteriPEN Journey Testimonial
The SteriPEN Journey is a great product and we really appreciated it when we travelled with our family through America’s National Parks. It is easy to use, we always had safe drinking water during our trip and the whole family stayed in good health. I am sure that the SteriPEN will be in my baggage [...]
Abracadabra! OK, now drink.
Working as a family-owned outfitter is a lot like working at a hardware store in that you have to know what you’re talking about. If you don’t, your customers might die. And usually, in both worlds, the employees have to use the products to understand them. That means that you either become passionate about the [...]
Blue Hill outdoorsman-inventor paves the way to safe water, any time, anywhere
The power of the sun inspired one Maine resident to invent the SteriPEN, a handy gizmo that was recently named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 All-Time Gadgets, a list of “the greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present.” The SteriPEN, a compact water purifier, is usually found in sports stores, outfitters [...]
Wanderlust and Lipstick
Your Destination for Women’s Travel Beth Whitman shares her passion for travel by providing inspiration, tips and words of wisdom from her 20 plus years of travel experience. Wanderlust and Lipstick provides both the nervous newbie and the well-seasoned Wanderluster with all the tools needed to set out on a dream journey. Beth’s gear always includes a [...]
Passport Health
Passport Health, dedicated to “first class medical care for travel anywhere,” is the largest provider of travel medical services in the United States with locations nationwide. Whether traveling for business, pleasure or a volunteer adventure, Passport Health prepares travelers for their trips with destination-specific travel information, including water safety information, as well as immunizations, travel [...]
OPERATION USA
Operation USA is an international relief agency that helps communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid. Since 1979, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit has worked in 99 countries, delivering over $350 million for relief and development projects. The organization supports several [...]
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