Since April 1992, when Nick Brown formed a partnership with Creaciones Miquelina in Bogotá, Colombia, Páramo has protected people outdoors with high performance, sustainable and award-winning clothing.
Happy 30th Birthday to us!
Category Archives: Environment
Páramo becomes an Employee Owned Trust
For 30 years, Páramo has engineered waterproofs that do not become obsolete – our garments are easily repaired and their waterproofing can be indefinitely renewed. To ensure the promise of durability and recyclability for Páramo People in the future, Nick Brown has sold Páramo Directional Clothing to the people that know it best – its employees.
Running in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Hiya, I’m Steve. I work for a national homelessness charity supporting those who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness and help them into secure and sustainable tenancies. I work across South Yorkshire but live in the Lincolnshire Wolds having moved down here from Scotland about 20 years ago now (as I write that I realise that soon I’ll have lived in England longer than I lived in Scotland!). I’m still a Scot though, right? Freckles, ginger beard…(Aye, I am).
Páramo in the squirrel woods
By early 2014, I had been monitoring and photographing red squirrels in West Cumbria for about 18 months. It rains in Cumbria (sometimes heavily) and I found that my existing waterproofs did not provide the required level of protection and comfort. April 2014 saw me in Scotland and the weather forecast, unseasonably warm, suggested that my trip, carrying heavy camera equipment, was likely to be a distinctly uncomfortable experience. I bought my first Páramo jacket, a Cascada, for the trip, was delighted with the results, and soon bought my first pair of Cascada directional trousers. My comfort level immediately improved.
The Rye Bay Harbour Discovery Centre
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in East Sussex is recognised internationally as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area for birds under the EU Wild Birds Directive, a Special Area of Conservation under the EU Habitats Directive, and a Ramsar site (Wetlands of International Importance).
PÁRAMO BECOMES OFFICIAL KEEN® FOOTWEAR STOCKIST
We are excited to announce that KEEN, the values-led outdoor footwear brand, is now stocked in our Páramo Brand Stores in Keswick, London and Wadhurst!
“We’re delighted to be working with KEEN in offering our customers footwear from a well-respected and reputable brand. KEEN’s ethical and environmental credentials, along with their emphasis on comfort and high performance, perfectly align with ours at Páramo and are what we expect from any company that we work with.” Tom Snee, Head of Páramo Sales
Continue readingBritish Antarctic Survey and Páramo: perfect partners
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has a long and distinguished history of carrying out research and surveys in the Antarctic and its surrounding regions, undertaking the majority of British research on the frozen continent, which it shares with scientists from over thirty countries.
Páramo’s partnership with BAS stretches back to 2008, when we began supplying their scientists with our Aspira Smocks, Aspira Salopettes and Pajaro Jackets. More recently we have supplied BAS with our Grid Baselayers and Torres Activo Jackets, selected by BAS for their unique Parameta® G and Nikwax® Analogy® Insulator fabrics.
Continue readingInterview with Conservation Biologist Dr.Fernando Gonzalez
Doctor Fernando Mateos-González is a Spanish biologist with a PhD in Animal Behaviour who has volunteered as a Leader for British Exploring Society (BES) on their expeditions to the Peruvian Amazon in 2017, the Canadian Yukon in 2018 and Iceland, by sail boat, in 2019.
Páramo, as official kit provider to BES, were lucky enough to secure an interview with Fernando, to hear more about his trips and work…
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