Frag Out! Magazine
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ShaSh SpeakS to thou From all three pairs we reviewed, Haix Nepal PRO is of the heaviest weight– those are heavy, durable boots made specifically for infantry soldiers. Currently, they are the standard footwear used by French infantry in European conditions, where they have been adopted as Chaussure de Combat Centre Europe. Also British Army adopted this mode in the very same role but under name of Boots, Combat, High Liability, Brown. y first concerns about Nepal Pro footwear disap- peared after the first several-kilometer long march. At the beginning, I did not want to take new boots to the rocky area of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland to avoid, against all logic, all the usual problems: sore feet and corns. Fortunately, I was wrong – boots ap- peared to be comfortable from the first use, although I would prefer mid-height boots, with a less "clog-like" look. You need to remember that sole is very stiff but remember the purpose. The range of weather and terrain conditions, under which I had the chance to wear Nepal PRO boots was quite wide: starting from heat in Polish mountains, rocks of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, through foggy Faroe Islands with lots of streams and rain, during rapelling and some other belay activities to urban areas. "The aim of this exercise" was not to test the comfort of the boots as such, but to check how the Gore-Tex Extended Comfort used in the boots performs in high temperatures. Regardless some concerns that Gore- Tex and high temperatures rather do not have too much in common (mainly because of my previous experiences with boots that had a membrane bad for hot weather, so I now prefer wearing footwear without a membrane all year round), it appeared that there must have been an improvement of that technology in the last few years. With proper socks, Haix Nepal PRO www.fragoutmag.com