I’ll put my cards on the table before beginning this review and admit that I am a big fan of outdoor footwear from the Italian brand Aku, which combines the values, knowledge and attention to detail you would expect from a family-owned and operated company with decades of tradition behind it, with the high-tech materials, components and construction methods found in modern bootcraft.
Interestingly (but somewhat incongruously), the brand’s punchy name is derived from a protective spirit deity found in the traditions of Easter Island in the midst of the Pacific, but the footwear Aku meticulously make is all designed for use in and around the high hills and mountains found in Europe.
