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New Wild Country Blaze, Boost and Flare harnesses in store

© Wild Country

Stylish and light, these new models have a totally new construction that brings together exclusively sourced new materials. Blended by our designers, these new fabrics create a robust, slim, laminate centred on our incredible new LST (load spread technology) webbing. Shaped across a range of belts it's a combination that provides maximum flexibility but minimum weight and bulk.

Our subtle designs with consistent, classic colours are further enhanced by combining compact, smooth, new Ziplock buckles with a slim new webbing on waist and legs. Fully featured, with men's and women's models, complementary new racking systems, new haul loops, ice racks and a super durable finish, there's a model for everyone.

The Wild Country range is split into three complementary groups, with three levels of features to choose from depending on your requirements and the Blaze, Flare, and Boost offer a high level of performance at a superb pricepoint.

Blaze Men's £60

Stylish and adaptable, the Blaze is multi-discipline model that lightens the load without sacrificing performance. Designed with a subtle shaping across waist and legs that sits sweetly with our exclusive 'Load Spread Technology' webbing there's a comfortable and substantial feel to this lithe and light unit. A bestseller, which sports our super secure Ziplock buckles on legs and waist for the slickest fastening, it's finished with four gear loops for big loads and is fantastic all round rig at a very good price.

Created for cragging, with a host of great features and built to go the distance in summer or winter this is a perfect package.

Features: 'Load Spread Technology' laminate belt and leg loops, DWC500 durable outer, 20mm Ziplock buckle waist, 16mm Ziplock leg loops, Four gear racks, 'Batwing' belt shaping, 16mm 22kn Belay loop, Accessory loop. Trad, sport, multi-pitch, winter, alpine.Five sizes XS - XL.

Flare Women's £60

The stylish new Flare...  © Wild Country

A brilliant balance of weight, fit and features this is a superb, multi faceted all rounder. A quality choice using our 'Load Spread Technology' webbing, the Flare is not simply designed to complement a men's model, but is adapted more rigorously to the female form; with a longer rise and altered waist and leg ratios providing a closer, cleaner fit. Add in our slick, Ziplock waist and legs and four gear loops across all sizes (great for trad outings too) this is a classic choice as an all round option.

Tailored to women; light, stylish, comfortable and strong, the Flare is a neat package that has proved irresistibly popular.

Features: Women's specific sizing, 'Load Spread Technology' laminate belt and leg loops, DWC500 durable outer, 20mm Ziplock buckle waist, 16mm Ziplock leg loops, Four gear racks, 'Batwing' belt shaping, 16mm 22kn Belay loop, Accessory loop. Trad, multi-pitch, sport, winter, alpine. Three sizes XS, S, M.

The sporty Boost....  © Wild Country

Boost £55

Uncluttered, slimline and smooth, the Boost is built for movement, indoors or out, and is a sports climbers dream. Constructed with our 'Load Spread Technology' webbing it's light enough for redpoints yet supportive enough for dogging and short, sharp, sport falls. A Ziplock waist cinches smoothly and stays locked drop after drop, while light, unobtrusive elastication keep the leg loops in place. Four gear loops mean plenty of choice and ensure mega sport pitches or shorter trad lines are no problem.

With clean lines and a sharp style this is a sport orientated option that comes into its own when weight matters most.

Features: 'Load Spread Technology' laminate belt and leg loops, DWC500 durable outer, 20mm Ziplock buckle waist, 16mm 22kn Belay loop, Elasticated leg loops, Four gear racks, 'Batwing' belt shaping. Sport, trad, multi-pitch. Four sizes XS, S, M, L.

All these are in store now and showcasing a pedigree and attention to detail based on over thirty years' experience; there's a harness here for all styles of climbing and any season!

You can see the rest of our new harness range here.

You can check out and download our 2013 Workbook with all our new kit here.

And you can see a short video with James Pearson showcasing the Blaze harness below.


For more information Wild Country



24 May, 2013
Please, please can manufacturers see sense and ditch the infernal 'ziplock' auto-locking buckles - or employ some designers who aren't useless... On every harness I've tried recently you end up with a stupid and annoying 25cm+ length of strap at both waist and legs thanks to the ziplock style buckles which by necessity require much longer straps. In every case the designers have proved utterly incapable of coming up with a decent way to tidy the straps away in use. [Edelrid deserve an honourable mention for their innovative new waist buckle/strap design, but it still doesn't work at the limits of adjustment.] The new WC harness range have nice pretty colours EXCEPT they have very clearly joined the club and bollocksed it up by not designing a good way to stow the annoying long straps that result from the choice of ziplock buckles. I am perpetually disappointed that supposedly competent manufacturer are utterly incapable of designing harnesses that are still usable at the lower end of their advertised size ranges...
24 May, 2013
Hear-Hear,as an ageing climber I dont have an "off the shelf" shape,basically I am a fat git with thin legs and find it impossible to find a harness that fits me.
24 May, 2013
In reply to both of you Hear Hear! The LAST thing I want on a harness is a speed-undo buckle, especially one described as "slick".
24 May, 2013
The point about 'ziplock' buckles is that the are not designed to be undone. First, that means the straps need to be long enough that the harness can still be put on over the hips easily by someone at the larger end of the size range. It is definitely the case that more spare strap is needed for than than compared with a traditional harness where the waist belt is wrapped directly around the waist. If the manufacturers aren't reasonable generous then they lose the purported advantage of the harness being quicker to put on. Therefore, in all harnesses at the lower end of the size range the straps are excessive. Second, the straps on ziplock type buckles have doubled back ends. If you cut the straps without replacing these, the buckles would undo pretty much every time the harness was taken off. Since the buckles aren't designed for this, re-threading them is much more awkward then normal buckles. As such, the harness would be a pain to use and you would have the worry about the possibility of loops completely undoing. As such, if someone did want to alter a WC harness they would really need to visit a cobblers to get the straps professionally shortened with new bar-tacked ends. If that doesn't constitute a design failure, I don't know what does.
24 May, 2013
I think I would put it at worst in my vaguely annoying list, you seem to be surprisingly annoyed by it. I much prefer zip-lock buckles so can live with a bit of extra strap. On my Renegade I don't remember it being a problem at all, it reaches the vaguely annoying on my Arcteryx harness. First world problems eh? ;)
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