Regardless of where you lay your head, you want to wake up refreshed and raring to go – not with a crick in the neck and aching shoulders. For campers and vanlifers who love adventure but don’t want to do without the luxury of a large pillow, the Mega Pillow is the ultimate sleep companion. The 3D shape creates an extra-large platform for your noggin, while the velvety material is padded with cosy synthetic insulation for softness and warmth. An air core also means you can tweak the level of inflation as desired to adjust the pillow height, making it ideal for side and back sleepers as well as stomach sleepers. Practical fabric eyelets on the sides also enable you to attach the pillow securely to your mat. The inner air cushion is removable, so the pillowcase can be washed if necessary. And the robust FlatValve ensures quick inflation and deflation for optimum efficiency.
The Exped story started in the early 1980s, in a basic log cabin deep in the Canadian wilderness. That might seem strange for a brand that is Swiss through and through. But it starts to make sense when you hear founders Heidi and Andi Brun talk about their wanderlust as young, twenty-something dreamers.
They built the cabin with their own hands and survived through the harsh winter by learning essential outdoor skills. Day-to-day existence relied on what nature provided – teaching them to live sustainably and with minimal impact. It also demonstrated clearly and simply that the most valuable thing to take into the great outdoors is knowledge, not equipment.
Their fledgling company started out as a distributor, bringing iconic outdoor brands to Switzerland. But soon, they became dissatisfied with other companies’ products. They felt they could do things better. So, they did, transitioning from distributor to manufacturer in 1997. What followed was a slew of pioneering products, from robust backpacking tents to down-filled sleeping mats. Generations on, many of those products are still part of the current Exped range – more refined, yet still built to work in the wild.
-Rob, Verified Buyer
