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Where in the World...11.10.11
LEKI Athlete Ueli Steck was featured on the TODAY show during Matt Lauer's "Where in the World" segment. Check out his video here.
Continue Reading...No Barriers Summit
06.30.11
This week, leading pole manufacturer LEKI will be participating in the No Barriers Summit, a four-day event hosted by No Barriers USA and the National Sports Center for the Disabled in Winter Park, Colorado. A gathering of modern-day pioneers, the Summit is a place where people living with challenges can experience outdoor adventures, innovative assistive technologies, education and hands-on demonstrations, and the arts. LEKI representatives will be on hand conducting Trekking and Nordic Walking clinics for Summit attendees on the Winter Park trails, basing instruction on the individual needs of each person who attends. The company will also be providing poles for a summit climb with No Barriers Chairman and blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and Jordan Romero, the youngest person to summit Mt. Everest.
Continue Reading...How it.'s Made
06.10.11
BUFFALO, NY – LEKI, the world’s leading manufacturer of Skiing, Trekking and Nordic Walking poles, will be featured in an upcoming segment of HOW IT’S MADE, a documentary program showing how common, everyday items are manufactured. The producers of HOW IT’S MADE, Productions MAJ, Inc. of Quebec, Canada, traveled to LEKI’s manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic to film the segment which will be airing on the Science Channel in the USA on Friday, June 10th at 9:00pm EST, and on the Discovery Channel in Canada on Friday, July 17th at 8:00pm EST.
Continue Reading...Running on Empty: 3000+ miles, 52 days, 57 years old
02.14.11
When Marshall Ulrich ran from San Francisco to New York City in 52.5 days, he was 57 years old and making an attempt to break a world record set by a man half his age.
Completing the mind-bending and body-breaking equivalent of 117 back-to-back marathons, Marshall ran an average of more than 400 miles a week, gained 84,430 feet in elevation, dealt with temps ranging from below freezing to the upper 90s, and crossed 12 states.
Continue Reading...LEKI USA Divests Canadian Distributorship to AMH Sports, Inc.
02.14.11
Buffalo, NY – Dec. 31, 2010 - LEKI USA announced today they will officially turn over management of the company’s Canadian business to independent distributor AMH Sports, Inc. of Montreal beginning January 1, 2011. AMH Sports, led by long-standing LEKI sales rep Michel Hébert, will handle all aspects of LEKI’s Canadian sales and servicing.
Continue Reading...LEKI Sponsors Disabled Veterans on Trek to Himalayan Mountains
08.13.10
Former President George W. Bush Provides Encouragement to Disabled Veterans Embarking on Himalayan Climb
Continue Reading...LEKI Khumbu Aergon Wins Camping Life's 2010 Editors' Choice Award
04.21.10
BUFFALO, NY – Leading pole manufacturer LEKI USA announced today that their new Khumbu Aergon trekking pole has received the 2010 Editors’ Choice Award from Camping Life magazine. The Khumbu Aergon features LEKI’s new SpeedLock system, considered to be the strongest external pole locking system in the world.
Continue Reading...LEKI Sponsors Backpacker's 2010 Get Out More Tour
04.05.10
BUFFALO, NY – April 5, 2010 – LEKI USA proudly announces its sponsorship of the Backpacker 2010 Get Out More Tour, an interactive mobile media and education tour designed to inspire readers and encourage participation in active outdoor pursuits. As a Participating Level Sponsor, LEKI receives exclusivity in the hiking and trekking poles product category and is seamlessly integrated into all presentations on the tour, offering product demos and providing test samples of models that feature their new SpeedLock external pole locking system.
Continue Reading...LEKI Trekking Poles Awarded Gear Junkie Top Ten Gear Pick
01.06.10
LEKI, the world’s leading manufacturer of Skiing, Trekking and Nordic Walking poles, today announced their Carbonlite AERGON Antishock trekking poles have been awarded the prestigious Top Ten Gear Pick by Gear Junkie for 2009. Each year Gear Junkie puts dozens of products to the test — tents, packs, boots, bikes, and knives among the mix. The 10 items, including the LEKI Carbonlite poles, clearly stood apart from the rest.
Continue Reading...WAM
03.23.09
LEKI USA was included in the Women's Adventure Magazine Spring Editor's Choice Awards.
Continue Reading...Kiwi Power
02.18.09
“During a recent 800-mile trek in Alaska my LEKI poles were a winner. They took me through the bush, over streams, rivers, and mountain passes and performed perfectly throughout. The LEKI Antishock system is a must for any trek.”
Continue Reading...Densmore Climbs More
02.18.09
LEKI athlete/writer/photo journalist/ski instructor (whew!) Lisa Densmore completed 42 hikes in the Adirondacks this past summer while working on her next guidebooks, Hiking the Adirondacks and Best Easy Day Hikes: Adirondacks, both from FalconGuides (due out in spring 2010).
Continue Reading...A Walk Around the World
02.16.09
Mix 11 languages, 18,000 miles, seven years, three continents, 17 times zones, 14 countries, 36 million steps, one man, a backpack and a dream and you get The Earth Expedition. It's one man's dream to walk the world's continents on nothing but two feet in an effort to build awareness, raise funds, and recruit volunteers for Blood: Water Mission, a non-profit organization based in Nashville, Tenn. that addresses the water crisis and HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Continue Reading...Hiking 101 Clinics
01.11.09
LEKI USA partnered with American Hiking Society (AHS) and American Park Network to create Hiking 101 clinics designed to teach people the basics of outdoor adventure with an emphasis on the benefits of using poles.
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