Neil Blundy

If you're travelling to Nepal, please don't add to the plastic avalanche of water bottles! Do your part in keeping this beautiful part of the world clean and safe, for the people who call it home and for everyone else who wants to enjoy it.

Caring for your rain jacket is something you probably haven't thought a lot about, and that's a big mistake.

The dZi Foundation is a relatively small NGO that helps remote mountain communities in Nepal to achieve their potential. Bogong supports dZi. Find out why...

The Primus PrimeTech stove gets a review from Bogong Equipment owner Neil Blundy, out in the field, at Wilsons Prom.

How to properly care for your hiking boots.

A step-by-step guide on how to custom-mould heat-formable liners from your ski or high altitude mountaineering boots.at home.

A question often asked in our store is: What about gaiters, do I really need them? I was pondering this last December while hiking along Tasmania’s South Coast Track. The weather was mild and fine but had been wet the week before we arrived. Did we need gaiters? Well, look at the picture....

The Cordillera Blanca is the highest tropical mountain range in the world and contains Peru’s highest mountains. Bogong owner Neil Blundy recently spent several weeks trekking through this impressive mountain range.

I first met the Grossglockner in 1993 on a six day hike through Austria's Hohe Tauern National Park. The thought of climbing it was immediately alluring. Not only because it is the highest mountain in Austria but also because of its beautiful shape.

What is Via ferrata all about? Via Ferrata is an Italian term (translation is iron way). It is used where a route is fixed up a cliff or mountain using fixed steel cables for the climbers to clip into for protection. Access may be facilitated by ladders or metal rungs on particularly steep sections. In this way routes up peaks become accessible to persons who would not otherwise be in a position to attempt them.