The unique Aquapure Traveller water bottle, providing safe palatable drinking water from any source: river, pool or swamp has passed one of its toughest tests to date on an Expedition to 21,000 foot Kala Pata, above Everest's base camp.
In this region of Nepal water courses are used by the indigenous population for bathing, drinking water as well as for sanitation. The result is most rivers and streams are breeding grounds for Cholera and other life threatening waterborne diseases. Little wonder, most expeditions to this starkly beautiful region choose to carry all their drinking water with them, usually in disposable plastic bottles which some leave to festoon the rugged landscape.
Bucking the trend, a British team including John Peters (who piloted the first allied plane to be shot down in the '91 Gulf War and wrote "Tornado Down") together with Commander Martin Helliwell (Commanding Officer of the Royal Navy's Survival School) chose to take just one water bottle each: Pure Hydration's Aquapure Traveller.
Weighing in at 99 grams, at the squeeze of a bottle it turns any contaminated river or silt laden swamp into a source of safe, clean drinking water. Approved by The Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the International Survival Instructors Association, the Aquapure Traveller's unique replacement filter produces up to 350 litres of water free from deadly viruses and pathogens such as Giardia and Cryptospiridium.
Thankfully for the British team, who used the expedition to raise funds for The British Institute For Brain Injured Children, Aquapure Traveller passed the test with flying colours.
