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About Mountain Designs

Every product stitched with a Mountain Designs label has been designed with the quality and functionality required to take on the world's biggest adventure playground, the outdoors. This is paramount to who we are and embedded in our DNA. It stemmed from when founder Rick White started crafting purpose-made adventure gear for his customers in the early 70s, and continues to be at the core of our operations today. Because like you, we live and breathe adventure. And like you, we hike, we climb, we camp, we explore, we dare. We know how essential the performance of our product is to the adventure. So by combining that real, hands-on experience with a dedicated focus on functionality, we are more committed than ever to outfitting you in the highest quality products so you can keep the adventure going. For Rick White, founder of Mountain Designs, life was about adventure, getting outdoors and exploring everything the world had to offer. His passion was climbing and in the late 1960s, Rick's name became synonymous with daring, almost crazy, ascents of various Australian climbs, particularly in the south-east of Queensland. With an ambitious desire to push the limits, he soon began venturing into the unknown and forging new routes, inspiring a cohort of local climbers along the way. This helped establish the sport within the domestic climbing community and put Australia on the map globally. Rick was indeed a visionary and a pioneer, and in 1975 following a bold attempt to climb Mt Fitz Roy in Patagonia, he dreamed up and began operating a climbing equipment business that would later become known as Mountain Designs.Zip may earn a commission