Introducing Klättermusen

With winter around the corner and a shift of outdoor activities, the best way to make some noise as a brand is: make quality stuff and stay original. Like mountaineering cultural tastemakers, Klättermusen. Repeat after me, Klätt-er-mu-sen, remember the name, if you don't know it yet, your favorite fashion space-invaders will hop on the Åre-departing train sooner than later. Crafting equipment for boundary-pushing explorers since 1975, providing gear with "maximum safety for you, minimum impact on nature," created with functionality in mind, thus ready to take on adventures that kick off in the mountains and end up in your favorite downtown after-work spot. The brand from Sweden also minimizes their ecological footprint through continuous improvements guiding Klättermusen's equipment making, which results in instant classics from bags, tees, hoodies, and jackets (just to name a few). To celebrate the latest collection landing at SNS, it was only right to link up with a true lover of the sport from Stockholm - Caio Marques, to see how he feels about the drop and catch up on his great passion.

SNS: First, who are you? What do you do? What do you like doing?

Caio: As Belchior (Brazilian folk musician) would say in one of his lyrics: “I am only a Latin American guy without money in the bank, no fancy relatives and born in the countryside.” In this case I would just change countryside for suburbs of Rio de Janeiro and add that I am a black Latin American who is engaged in questions that concern indigenous peoples, LGBTQ+ and people of color rights.

Right now, I live one of the most prolific and fruitful periods of my life in terms of creativity. I have just started a bachelor in Fine Arts at the Royal Institute of Art which gives me the tools and the opportunity to explore more freely my ideas and connect with new people and scholars engaged purely in putting something out there using art as a medium for that.

What I like to do? Many things but if I could list the primary things which comes first in my head is hanging out with my daughter Blues, exercising (Biking, Climbing, Swimming,etc) and in the past two years I’ve been helping a couple of friends to rebuild an XVII century’s house they bought on the north of Sweden.

So from Rio to Stockholm. Big change. Would you say nature in Sweden has a part in you making this your home?

Absolutely. I have been traveling around Sweden and it is incredible nature here. If you think that you are definitely surrounded by forest no matter which part of the country you are. It can be on the countryside or in the middle of the city center, you will always find a nice park or some woods to connect with nature and breath some fresh air.