WINNER: Sophie Nunn
With Adam Ondra recently joining the Mammut team, it wasn't long before he'd chosen his favourite harness from their range: the Sender. It's not just Adam's favourite though, Jakob Schubert climbed his way into the medal rankings at the 2019 World Championships with the Sender harness.
Extremely light. Ready to perform: the Sender Harness is just waiting for your next trip. Highly breathable and robust thanks to the laser-cut fabric. Optimum weight distribution with Split Webbing technology. Performance-oriented fit. Sender Harness, the climbing harness for performance sport climbers.
Features
- Harness closure system: Slide-Bloc buckle
- Laser-cut fabric for breathability and robustness
- 2 large pre-shaped gear loops for easy attachment and 2 lightweight gear loops
- Tie-in loop protected by high-quality plastic to avoid abrasive wear and extend the service life
- Indicator in the tie-in loop shows when the harness needs to be replaced
- Strong haul loop (2 kN)
- Attachment for chalk bag
- Easy to move, hot-forged aluminum buckle
- Attachments for 4 ice screw carabiners
- Unisex design
- Including a bag for handy transport
- Certification: CE EN 12277 Type C, UIAA
This competition has now closed.
Comments
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This kind of marketing spiel is desperately annoying. Ondra has barely switched sponsor and already has a 'favourite harness' which just happens to be Mammut's flagship model. What a surprise! As for the idea that harness model has anything to do with Jacob doing his thing in the comps, well... The less said, the better.
The absolute irony in this situation is that Ondras old sponsor BD has by far the best value/performing harness range on the market right now. The Zone or Technician cost less, have a smaller packsize and are just as comfortable than the best offerings from Mammut/Petzl/Edelrid etc.
I'd be more than happy to see some content of Ondra presenting the harness and explaining what features he finds good about it or whatever, but the leverage of Ondra/Jacobs celebrity image to attach pseudo-endorsement to an existing product is nauseating. Unfortunately this is completely on brand for Mammut.
p.s. no direct criticism here for the UKC team and I appreciate you're just passing along the brand message.
Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with anything here, it's interesting that there is a wider feeling (across the board, far beyond this harness and the nonsense put out by Mammut) that climbing is somehow largely immune to things like celebrity sponsorship, marketing, and corporate guff. Don't get me wrong, this kind of claptrap gets my back up too, it's just an interesting observation that the monetisation of climbing is a) so noticeable, and b) so cringeworthy, in a way that it isn't for many other things. I guess it's a product of climbing's history and (arguably former) status as an 'outsider' activity.
TL;DR - I'm off to buy the harness, which will make me a better climber.
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Hope the orange glow makes you elevate up the rock as effortlessly as the daily sunrise :)