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The pair cherrypicked from standard outdoorsindustry items, including a DeLorme PN40 GPS unit and, from their sponsor, the Victorinox Swiss Tool Spirit Plus Rachet, a $145 multitool that served as their repair kit.But they also brought unexpected things like a teapot. "We called it the Fat Lady," Huston said. They bought the bulbous stainless swiss replica watches steel pot in the village of Iqaluit, Nunavut, before departure. It is a $40 item Huston said was essential on the trip.The teapot is big and moderately heavy at about 26 ounces. But Hustonwho stored it during transit each day wrapped in his sleeping bag with a satellite phone insideswears by the sevenliter pot for melting snow blocks and boiling water in some of the worst conditions on the planet.
Esoteric polar gear made in Norway comprised a bulk of Huston and Fish's haul. The Alfa M?rdre Extreme Boots, sold only at the Sportsnett outdoor store in Oslo, according to Huston, are a simulacrum to footwear worn a century ago by explorers like Roald Amundsen. But the Alfa M?rdre Extremes, which are handmade and cost $1,000 a Ebel replica watches pair, employ modern materials alongside leather and wool.Huston and Fish bought their boots a couple sizes too large. They added three insoles and wore three pairs of socks. In more than 3,000 miles of use, in training and on expeditions, Huston said the boots have resulted in just one tiny blister and zero frostbite.
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