There’s outdoor kit that you can buy from lots of different brands without a clear winner on the performance or quality front. And then there are multitools, where one brand reigns supreme: Leatherman.
The Portland-based brand did, after all, invent the very first pliers-based multitool back in the 1970s. The story goes that founder Tim Leatherman started to dream up the idea of a portable pair of pliers that could do multiple jobs during a road trip across Europe in 1975 where he kept facing odd jobs from dodgy plumping to engine troubles.
