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CAMP USA XLH 95 Climbing Harness

CAMP USA XLH 95 Climbing Harness description

Camp made their XLH 95 Climbing Harness for adventure racers and ski mountaineers who want the lightest harness they can possibly find. Every weight-adding feature has been stripped from this 3.4oz wonder, leaving you with a system that's great for short rappels and the just in case belay when you're testing a slope. An elastic drawcord holds the XLH 95 Harness around your waist, so you don't always need a carabiner hanging in front. Though this Camp harness would be a poor choice for rock climbing, it's exactly what you need for times when you should have a harness but don't want to carry one.

Bottom Line: The Camp XLH 95 Harness weights only 3.4oz and fits in your pocket. Enough said.

Incredibly light and compact. Two friends have tried it and all of us agree it is not too uncomfortable when hanging from it. Indeed it is much more comfortable than it appears it would be and only a little more uncomfortable than my big padded harness for periods of 15 minutes or so. For SAR I would still use the padded harness since longer periods of hanging are common.

It would appear that adventure racers, backcountry skiers, and alpine light freaks have figured out the same thing I didthis harness weighs almost nothing. It was therefore quite difficult to find one, as it is backordered from CAMP Italy world-wide at this time. There is a reason for this.Nothing else on the market comes close to the elegant simplicity of this rig. It is an Alpine Bod for the current generation of fast-and-light pushes. I had trouble finding a locking carabiner that would accept a Munter hitch without doubling the weight of the rig (turns out a DMM Sentinel, at 45 grams, is about the best you can do). Think about that for a secondthis harness weighs the same as two carabiners, or one large HMS locker. Pick up your regular harness and your belay biner, and you'll quickly understand why this thing is so hard to get a hold of. There is nothing like it. You will have to sew your own rig if you want to find an alternative.For dropping cornices, rapping cliff bands, or belays on iffy avalanche aspects, the light weight of this harness makes it a tremendous advance. I would not want to take a whipper in it, thoughit would probably cut you in half like a ripe tomato. But you can probably figure that out from the picture. I have a "real" climbing harness for technical routes and I'm very happy with it. This thing, on the other hand, is for ski mountaineering and mostly-unroped alpine pushes, and it weighs about the same as a daisy chain. If you need something like it for ski touring or the like, and you can find it in stock somewhere, I think you will be very pleased with the margin of safety offered by its negligible weight.