The North Face Summit Series Pumori Down Parka review: a down jacket as lofty as it is expensive

An orange The North Face Summit Series Pumori Down Parka laid open on grass.

The North Face Summit Series Pumori Down Parka: first impressions

The North Face Summit Series Pumori Down Parka is the most expensive down jacket/layer the company produces (with the exception of its Himalayan Summit Suit), designed to keep you warm on frighteningly cold expeditions, high-altitude mountaineering trips and deep winter wild camping escapades. It's lightweight, packable and technically designed, void of any unnecessary bells and whistles that some belay jackets come with. In that sense, the Pumori is a functional powerhouse, designed and optimised to do one job better than any other jacket out there – to keep you warm in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.