Snow Peak's Hozuki camp lantern looks so good you might just end up using it at home too. It's a soft, warm LED with three modes – a steady glow, a flickering candle-like mode, and a sleep mode that dims gradually. It’s all powered by a built-in rechargeable battery that you can juice up easily via USB-C, so no more hunting for spare AAs at the bottom of the glovebox. The hook on top lets you hang it from a daisy chain, tarp loop, tent ceiling or just the garden washing line, and at 280g it's light enough to clip just about anywhere.
Snow Peak's journey began in 1958, when the founder Yukio Yamai, an accomplished mountaineer, created his own line of superior climbing gear. Snow Peak then looked to evolve by shifting its focus from the mountaineering equipment of the past to the camping equipment of the future. Fueled by the booming national interest in auto-camping sweeping across Japan, Snow Peak released a series of radically innovative products which focused on quality, functionality, timeless-durability and considered design.