Repair,
not replace.
We are a young brand, so this page is short. It lists what we already do — not what we hope to announce. No borrowed statistics, no numbers we cannot show you.
The greenest jacket is
the one you keep.
Every HIU product carries the same promise: “If it breaks on the trail, bring it back. We fix it.” A repaired seam keeps a jacket on the trail and out of a landfill, which is the most direct impact a gear maker can have.
Repairs happen on the same bench where we prototype new pieces, and every repair is documented. The running count on our homepage grows only when a real repair leaves the workshop — never before.
Cutting jackets
leaves fabric.
Technical fabric is too good to bin. The offcuts left after cutting our jackets are sewn into waste-fabric bags and toiletry kits in the same Kathmandu workshop, by the same hands.
They are small runs, priced simply, and they exist so that usable cloth does not leave the building as waste. You can find them in the shop alongside the jackets they came from.
No numbers before they are real.
You will not find recycled-content percentages, offset certificates, or community-project claims on this page. We come from Solukhumbu and we intend to give back to it — but we publish that work when it exists, with names, dates, and receipts, not before.
Until then, the repair bench does the talking.