It's A Vision Adventure...

Just to up our coverage of this year's OS Outdoors Show, we found the latest contender in the spiralling headtorch weapons' race in the form of Vision Adventure's mighty noggin light.

VA is an offshoot of Hope Technology, a company which among other things, builds serious lights for night-time mountain biking. The Vision Adventure head light is an adaptation of their bike lights but with a head mount.

It's a serious bit of kit with two 5-watt LEDs housed in a CNCed alloy casing and with a remote, headband-mounted, rechargeable battery for ease of use. To put that all in perspective, Silva's L1 uses a single 3-watt LED while even their new LX model, due out soon after production delays, has only a single 5-watt bulb.

So we're talking lots and lots of lights. Up to a 100-metre beam according to VA, though there are four different power settings giving from around two hours to 14 hours of light.

All of which begs the question of who needs this much light? For the average walker or climber it's overkill, but for adventure racers moving fast over rough terrain at night or fell-runners who want to train on the fells at night, it promises spectacular illumination plus good definition thanks to the head mounting.

It all comes at a price though - a weight of 320 grammes - though that's only around 80 grammes more than an L1 - and a retail tag of £175. Ouch, but you're getting a lot for the dosh.

More details at www.vision-adventure.co.uk