Ti-Double H450 Stacking Mug

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.

Snow Peak's titanium drinkware is the brand's signature craft — single- or double-wall titanium cups, mugs, kettles and French presses, hand-finished in Sanjo, made to be used and used and used. Titanium is lighter than steel, stronger than aluminium, naturally bacteriostatic, and develops its own patina over years of use. Direct-flame safe (on single-wall), dishwasher-unfriendly by design — this is gear that outlasts the camping trip, the career, the decade.