This is a personal review. The jacket was bought (sob!) with a lot of my own hard-earned cash. Other brands, from other retail outlets, are available.

I’ve spoken about this jacket in some of my previous blogs, so apologies for any repetition.

The first thing to say about the Mammut Whymper jacket, not that it needs telling, is that it’s RED, AMAZINGLY ALMOST OFF THE COLOUR PALETTE RED. It’s nearly luminescent, especially with the touches of, equally bright, yellow on the zips. You can probably see me wearing it from the moon! But ‘red’ works for me, it’s the colour of my favourite football team – the might Barnsley FC (COYR!), it matches my politics (sorry!) and is, according to my wife, apparently the only colour I wear.

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