Unbiased, authentic, honest — and reviewed in the UK. The Great British Adventure Club is a network of mountain guides and outdoor industry professionals with decades of experience between them. They lead our trips. They live in this landscape. And along the way, they test, report on and review the kit you'll find on every adventure we run — so you can rely on better know-how, and even better kit, when it matters most.
Our guides are working professionals who've spent years on Britain's hills, in Britain's weather, with Britain's gear. They lead our trips, and they sit at the heart of a wider network of contributors — product designers, mountain leaders, coaches, cartographers and outdoor industry professionals — who put kit through its paces on our behalf.
And unlike most gear review websites, we don't believe one person's opinion is enough. So when a piece of kit comes through the GBAC, it goes out into the field with at least three different contributors — across different terrains, seasons and conditions. The result is a long-form review that's informative, useful and honest. No marketing fluff. No favours. Just what works and what doesn't, written by the people who'd bet their day on it.
How we get hold of kit
Most of what we review reaches us in one of three ways:
- A contributor already owns and uses the kit themselves — and rates it (or doesn't) after years of real use.
- A brand or PR agency offers us a sample to test across the network.
- A brand or PR agency sends a sample direct to one of our contributors for in-field testing
However it lands, the deal is the same. We never accept payment for reviews. We don't soften our verdict because a sample was free. And we don't recommend kit on our trips that our guides wouldn't buy themselves. The only people we're accountable to are the ones reading the reviews — and the ones walking out with us on a trip.