
Hands up everybody who’s ever seen Ripley suit up in that P-5000 Powered Work Loader exoskeleton in Aliens and thought, “You know what? That’s just what I could do with for hiking.”
No? Though the thought might have crossed your mind 15km into a hike, struggling under the weight of an overstuffed backpack that’s so dense it’s formed its own gravitational field and those trekking poles just aren’t helping more.