PHD Mountain Software

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PHD Mountain Software

PHD--or Peter Hutchinson Designs--is an outdoor clothing and equipment company. It specializes in down sleeping bags and down jackets but also makes synthetically-insulated sleeping bags and jackets, outerwear, fleece, and accessories. Their lines are designed for climbers, mountaineers, polar explorers and hikers.

[edit] History of PHD

PHD was established in 1998 in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England by Peter Hutchinson, the founder of Mountain Equipment and designer / manufacturer to a range of mountaineering and polar expeditions over the last 46 years. PHD's clients include Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Rosie Swale-Pope, Andy Kirkpatrick, Ian Parnell and Jim McNeill. In the year 2000 their Minimus down sleeping bag was chosen as an official 'Millennium Product' by the British Design Council.