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Design Philosophy
This innovative conceptual product boosts mountaineering safety with enhanced cushioning and structural body support for superior comfort, featuring a textile-integrated emergency lighting system.
Crevasses Rescue
Kluflit Axis Harness
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Smart Textile
Textile design integrated with emergency lighting
Mr Fluid Deployment
Enhances comfort by offering extra cushioning and structural body support.
Ortovox
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Learn Protect Connect
Mountaineering Safety
Crevasses Danger(Denali)
Denali's crevasses are deadly hidden glacier cracks that collapse under snow bridges, plunging climbers 40–100+ feet to injury, hypothermia, or death.
of fatalities on Denali are from falls.
45%
of deaths occur on descent.
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+50%
What if mistake saves life?
How could conscious overcome obsession?
What if mistake saves life?
Crevasses pose a severe danger, and in such extreme conditions, human errors are common
—yet a single mistake can prove fatal.
What if our design transforms that mistake into a life-saving opportunity?
Crevasses Danger(Denali)
Crevasses pose the greatest danger in alpine environments. Victims who fall into them often end up hanging suspended.
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The rope or harness cutting off blood circulation to the legs.
Pete's Fun Sketch
Pete's ''fun" sketch principle: ideation for problem solving, fun sketch to innovate based on styling.
Lines of extension
Mountaineering Harness
Field Trip
User Testing + Mockup
Leveraging sketches and mock-ups to test how users interact with the design.
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Extra Cushion
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Back Support
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Extended Leg Support
Leveraging sketches and mock-ups to test how users interact with the design.
How could conscious overcome obsession?
Climbers can lose respect for nature when they become too focused on conquering a mountain, leading to carelessness and increased danger.
How could our design transforms that obession into a life-saving opportunity?
Smart Textile
Textile design integrated with
emergency lighting
Team Rescue
Mr Fluid Deployment
Enhances comfort by offering extra cushioning and structural body support.
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Team members are connected by ropes and harnesses
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A fall into a crevasse triggers the safety system
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MR fluid activates to protect the back and waist
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Smart textiles illuminate the crevasse environment
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The lighting alerts teammates to the incident
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Team members respond quickly to rescue the climber
Colorways - Four Seasons
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