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Flight Comfort

The 10-hour leg before the trek starts.

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Trtl Travel Pillow — For the nine-hour flight before day one
Best travel pillow

For the nine-hour flight before day one

Trtl Travel Pillow

Internal support, scarf-style, ~150 g

Actually supports the head sideways, which a U-shaped pillow does not — it looks like a scarf and some people find it too warm to wear for a long flight.

Real lateral support, which is where heads fall

Packs flatter than an inflatable

Washable after a long-haul

Warm around the neck

Looks unusual

Only supports one side at a time

Not for you if: Anyone who sleeps upright without help. Save the weight.

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Flight compression socks — Ankles that still fit your boots on day oneBest long-haul item

Ankles that still fit your boots on day one

Flight compression socks

Arriving with swollen feet and then putting on trekking boots the next morning is a genuinely bad start — these fix that for the price of a coffee, and they are tight enough that some people cannot stand them.

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