Sea to Summit Pocket Towel
Microfibre, medium, ~80 g
Dries overnight in a cold lodge where a cotton travel towel simply does not — it never feels pleasant, and it holds a faint smell after a week however often you rinse it.
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Do not buy this if: Nobody, but manage your expectations about how it feels.
Everything else we recommend in hygiene & wipes, including the ones we think suit a different trekker.
The honest necessityBiodegradable body wipes
Hot showers above Dingboche cost money, use a lodge’s scarce fuel, and leave you cold for an hour afterwards — a wipe wash is the realistic alternative, and "biodegradable" still means carry them out, not bury them.
One bottle, five jobsDr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap
Concentrated enough that a small bottle does a fortnight of body, hair and laundry — it is still soap, so it does not belong in a stream, however biodegradable the label is.
