Outside Magazine named the Petzl Headlamp as the “Most Influential Gear of All Time.”
The world says that the father of the headlamp is Fernand Petzl. Maybe it is because he used the elastics from his wife’s bra to make his first headlamp prototype for caving. In all reality, Fernand Petzl incorporated his caving headlamp designs to invent the first mountaineering headlamp in 1973.
