| Wild Country’s relationship with sewn materials is a long and illustrious one, beginning with the first harnesses we built at the factory way back in 1978. From this start Wild Country went on to become the first company to be able to three sigma rate sewn goods enabling a consistent quality to be reached in an area where traditionally there had been a lot of variation in breaking strains. The introduction of hi-tech programmable bartacking machine reduced the ‘human error’ and allowed more and more technically difficult materials to be sewn. Add to this the Managing Directors experience and skill with sewn goods and the materials which make them up, as well as the company philosophy of light being right, and it is no wonder Wild Country have stayed at the forefront of this field and continue to move things forward. Often the importance of slings in all systems is overlooked and so has their part in the overall ‘system’ used by climbers. It’s always useful to remember that anything which is heavier or bulkier than it has to be simply restricts movement and adds weight to the rack. So there would be no point in forking out for the most expensive and lightest biners in the world if the sling which joins them in a quickdraw was fat, heavy and doesn’t suit. Therefore it has always been imperitive that the sewn goods program at Wild Country is intrinsically linked to the hardware planning. It is certainly no co-incidence that our most ‘cutting-edge’ biners complement and coordinate our thinnest slings to make the lightest possible unit. For instance there would be no point in putting two 33 gram Helium biners together with a 15 gram 19mm Nylon sling…so instead we use a 6 gram 10mm Dyneema unit that totally suits the job… | 
