If you liked the Tikka - and we do see our testhere - then you'll be glad to know that Petzl now has an evenmore compact LED head torch available.The Balti - just joking, honest - is really called the Zipka andaccording to Petzl PR honcho Richard

New from Petzl this spring is a super-tough new headlamp called the Pixa 3 which features waterproofing, chemical resistance for those bad pint days and three lighting modes designed to cope with both distance and close-range use.The chunky

Following on from our news report on the new Petzl Nao headtorch, here's a video showing the Nao in action and explaining how it works with a sensor and microprocessor automatically deciding how much and what sort of light you need and

Just in for review is the new for 2011, second generation Petzl Grigri 2, the replacement for the original Grigri 'assisted braking belay device'.It's hard to believe, but the Grigri first appeared on the scene 20 years ago as a more user

We're just back from the Lakes where after a hard day of looking at new stuff from Haglöfs and The North Face - more about both of those shortly - we also met up with Petzl's UK PR man, Clive Allan, for a closer look at Petzl's radical new Nao head

OM regulars will know that we've got an advanced sample of Petzl's new for 2012 Nao head torch to play with - it's a highly ingenious, very bright light with one massive stand-out feature: it can be set to automatically adjust the light output using

We're indebted to the guys over at Alpkit for alerting us to this via their twitter feed - it's a free downloable album of tunes from the soundtracks of Petzl's video collection, which is also worth a look.Mostly it's pretty chilled stuff and we can

The New Petzl NaoThe New Petzl NaoPetzl is just about to launch what it reckons is its most significant new product for many years in the shape of the Petzl Nao, a new headtorch that combines über-bright output with a programmable, rechargeable

The ingenious reactive lighting technology first used by Petzl on its super-bright Nao headtorch last year is set to become lighter and more affordable with the announcement of two new TIKKA models, the  TIKKA RXP and TIKKA R+.The reactive lighting

Here's the dramatic head torch scoop they simply didn't want youto know about... And now, thanks to an enterprising OM mole, we havea picture as well.Petzl has announced the Myo, a replacement for the classic Zoom,which has increasingly been left