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With much outdoor kit, technical users are basically looking for one thing: maximum performance for minimum weight. The Swift RL has been meticulously engineered with just this in mind. New for 2026, this headlamp is now capable of putting out a dazzling 1200 lumens of brightness — enough to illuminate up to 155 metres ahead — in a compact package that weighs just 92g. This makes it the ideal choice for the most rigorous outdoor users on challenging fast and light missions. This lamp is also equipped with reactive lighting technology, which senses ambient light in your environment and automatically adjusts the beam brightness accordingly, delivering a minimum 7-hour burn time at medium brightness. Meanwhile, the Swift RL's two-part construction provides excellent stability in dynamic and intense activities from mountaineering to trail running. The intuitive single button offers easy control of all lamp functions. It is rechargeable too, with a five-level gauge for precise monitoring of the remaining battery charge.
| Lighting performance as defined by the ANSI/PLATO FL 1 protocol | ||||||
| Lighting Technology | Lighting Color | Lighting Levels | Brightness | Distance | Burn Time | Reserve Lighting |
| REACTIVE LIGHTING® | White | Max Burn Time | 18 to 100 lm | 35 | 10 to 70 h | 10 lm for 2 h |
| Standard | 25 to 275 lm | 75 | 7 to 45 h | |||
| Max Power | 30 to 1200 lm | 155 | 2 to 35 h | |||
| Standard Lighting | Max Burn Time | 10 lm | 12 | 100 h | ||
| Standard | 160 lm | 50 | 7 h | |||
| Max Power | 700 lm | 115 | 2 h | |||
| Red | Continuous | 3 lm | 5 | 60 h | - | |
| Strobe | Visible at 150 m for 300 h | |||||
As a brand, Petzl was born in the darkness. Their story began with founder Fernand Petzl's passion for caving, back in the mid-1930s. Out of that passion, Petzl started to design innovative solutions for ascending, descending, belaying and moving about underground. This included pioneering headlamps and rope safety equipment. But alpinists soon discovered that what worked below the earth also worked above it, and Petzl kit was quickly co-opted by climbers, mountaineers and skiers.
Today, Petzl remains one of the leading technical brands in all these fields, still devoted to one mission: to access the inaccessible. The product range is split into two core categories: lighting – which includes some of the world's most advanced head torches; and verticality – highly technical equipment designed for those venturing into the world's loftiest mountain ranges as well as the globe's deepest, darkest places.
