Snow Peak was founded in 1958 in Sanjo, Niigata — Japan's 600-year knife-making capital — by alpinist and metalworker Yukio Yamai, who was frustrated with the European mountaineering gear of his day and started hand-forging his own crampons and pitons in titanium and inox steel. He registered the Snow Peak name in 1963 as a tribute to Mt. Tanigawa, the Niigata peak with the highest fatality record in the world. The family has run the company ever since: Tohru Yamai pivoted to car-camping in the 1980s, and third-generation Lisa Yamai launched the apparel line in 2014. Guiding philosophy: noasobi — the art of playing in the field. Every product is still tested at Snow Peak's 41-acre campfield-HQ in Niigata, across the road from a Kengo Kuma-designed Field Suite Spa.
The Rechargeable Hozuki Lantern is Snow Peak's LED take on the classic Japanese paper lantern — a soft, warm, 100-lumen light with a built-in motion sensor (subtle "candle flicker" mode) that mimics a real flame. Rechargeable, pocketable, and quietly beautiful. One of the most-bought Snow Peak pieces for a reason: it turns a bivy, a deck, or a camp into a proper gathering space.
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CA$ 180
Snow Peak was founded in 1958 in Sanjo, Niigata — Japan's 600-year knife-making capital — by alpinist and metalworker Yukio Yamai, who was frustrated with the European mountaineering gear of his day and started hand-forging his own crampons and pitons in titanium and inox steel. He registered the Snow Peak name in 1963 as a tribute to Mt. Tanigawa, the Niigata peak with the highest fatality record in the world. The family has run the company ever since: Tohru Yamai pivoted to car-camping in the 1980s, and third-generation Lisa Yamai launched the apparel line in 2014. Guiding philosophy: noasobi — the art of playing in the field. Every product is still tested at Snow Peak's 41-acre campfield-HQ in Niigata, across the road from a Kengo Kuma-designed Field Suite Spa.
The Rechargeable Hozuki Lantern is Snow Peak's LED take on the classic Japanese paper lantern — a soft, warm, 100-lumen light with a built-in motion sensor (subtle "candle flicker" mode) that mimics a real flame. Rechargeable, pocketable, and quietly beautiful. One of the most-bought Snow Peak pieces for a reason: it turns a bivy, a deck, or a camp into a proper gathering space.
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