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The Alpinist was a great pack. Nice to see something rise from the dead too

https://www.mitchellsadventure.com/clothing/base-layer/thermal-underwear/australian-army-undershirt/ecsg078.aspx These are OK I have a couple in XL and they work but the wool against my skin sometimes itches so I wear them over my Patagucci UL

Why not get a Swiss poncho-cape and cut it short? While I don't use my own Swiss cape much it lives in the car in winter or in my winter deer hunting pack for sitting static and it would be easy enough to take a pair of scissors and remove as much as needed from the bottom

I find that cheap cake racks can be bent to shape quite easilly

Personally I like the Mors K take on survival kits. His is simply huge when compared to the tiny tinny thingie

If only ALDI sold mints in the big stainless steel bento box thingies. The Aldi bento box fits inside a large mess tin to get the best of both worlds

Yep He should have used diesel or napalm

One DIY suggestion is to source some good hessian, sew up a few 10% oversized bags and then boil them for an hour in an alkaline copper sulphate solution. I use cloudy ammonia as the alkaline element. Just last year I did this with some surplus WW2 "economy" web gear and it all turned a really...

I think that anybody having an emergency under more that 5 metres of water won't be helped by a strobe or flashing light. Under "Normal" circumstances I'll stick with red as it's the nominal "danger/help" signal we are all used to. The caveat being all of these signals are wattage dependent so...

I was in ALDI the other day and they had a couple of the USB charged bike lights on clearance. White and Red lights with a triple mode switch. While not a strobe on the red flash they are visible for quite a way and I now clip the red one to the back of my headlamp harness when road walking...

Having just watched the video I think any Karrimor frame from the 70' or 80s would work just as well. Personally I've never liked those American BoyScout type packs. A Joe Brown would be more my style or the old Berghaus Geant

The tipi in that video really did need all the guys fitted and taut and it wouldn't have moved so much. But putting the flue as close to the pole as possible makes so much sense in a single pole tent

I'm not familiar with Canadian military frames but there were about 7 different frames in use in Vietnam; But Google says that it's similar to the US Army P-65. Made and issued before the use of the new NSN system 8465-782-3248 Military stock number MIL-R-43373 I wish you luck getting one at...

Can you be more specific about the frame, over the course of that conflict there are many variations on a theme before the ALICE pack got issued Do you know the NSN number of the American pack?

A Personal Survival Kit isn't a tiny little tin with bits in, it is a collection of equipment to assist you in not dieing. So in the urban context a beanie and a raincoat and a phone + cash/card to call a taxi could be included. People in urban areas die of hypothermia all the time. 3AM on the...

I simply don't guy out my rolled Titanium flues, I use the silicone roof boot to secure the top of the flue. I think you have to treat rolled flues as a replacement maintenance item. Tip from an American site is to roll the foil over a length of PVC plumbing pipe the first time and fire it up...

We never exchanged addresses and this was before mobile telephones so contact would have been difficult. I considered this "Paying it Forward"

I have a similar tale. Goes back many years and relates to language difficulties and different cultural expectations. Australia has many old huts and shelters in our Alpine areas. I arrived at a popular hut in the late afternoon just ahead of a cold change and late forecast snow [ Late...

A bottom grill may help. I have used a small cake rack in my little cylinder stove. The big Helsport stove did come with a perforated rack and that is a replacement item. Happy experimenting I was born in the 1950s, but we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift and if we can get though the next...

I have some small experience with small tent stoves and the heat going up the chimney isn't "waste heat" the radiant heat from the flue is what I use to dry off my wet gear. I'm burning twigs and other small stuff in my cylinder stove and while pretty much useless for cooking on it works to melt...