Headlamps

Let there be light! We take a look at one of the brightest headlamps on the market.

Less than an ounce is not much. The spoon I eat my cereal with weighs more than the new Petzl e+lite, the latest addition to the continuing arc of LED technology.

Someone at BD has been drinking loads of joe, because the Zenix IQ is nearly perfect. Powered by just two AA batteries, this pup, when cycled to the brightest of eight settings, is powerful enough to search out that next pitch.

The new kid on the block, NiteHawk, a Canadian outfit, enters the lamp fray with a proprietary light “emitter” that its designers say is “beyond the LED”—and will “replace existing lighting in the not-so-distant future.”

Gear heads are going to be tweaking and freaking over Petzl’s new MYO RXP. This fully programmable LED headlamp allows you to customize how many lumens you set forth into the darkness.

The EOS is the only lamp reviewed with the batteries stowed right behind the bulb (the other three have a rear-mounted pack).

Man’s greatest invention wasn’t the lunar module. Nor was it bronze or the sea clock. It was fire.

Ever since creation, man has feared what he cannot see. When it's dark, psychos with skinning knives chase buxom lasses through the woods, and rappel ropes dangle unseen well short of the ledge.

Light is symbolic of everything good in our world, not to mention that it's useful. We pragmatic, weight-conscious, nit picky, gear-snobby climbers now have two new pocket lights to help us get through the darkest moments of our pointless existences: the Black Diamond Apollo Lantern. and the Coleman Exponent Lithium Pack-Away Lantern.