The single biggest money-saver on a two-week trek
Four-season down bag (−15 °C), rented
Down-filled, rated around −15 °C, with a liner
A bag you would buy costs several hundred dollars and you need it for perhaps five cold nights. Kathmandu and Pokhara rent good ones for a couple of dollars a day, and we make nothing from telling you that — take your own silk liner and the hygiene question answers itself.
A fraction of the purchase price for the nights you actually need it
No 1.5 kg of down in your airline baggage
Shops re-loft and clean them because their trade depends on it
You get what is on the rack, not your size
Loft varies — squeeze the baffles before you take one
A liner is genuinely non-optional
Not for you if: People who camp at home, or anyone doing three Himalayan trips. Then buy once, properly.
Rental shops in Kathmandu and Pokhara carry this — about usd 1-2 per day in thamel or pokhara lakeside. We take nothing from that.
