Siggy
Well-Known Member
There are lots of good boots out there and a lot of the boots marketed at the stalking world don't, in my view, give quite the same support as boots aimed at walkers or mountaineers.
I have Douvre Extremes and they are fine boots but not as supportive as some Scarpa (and other) walking boots that I own.
Also worth considering is the British Army "High Liability" boots. They are made by two suppliers so you can get them either from Altberg or Haix and they usually sell for around £50 as surplus items. I've been using a pair of the Haix ones and they are as good a boot as my Douvre Extremes I would say. The altberg ones seem pretty hard to find at the minute as I think there was considerable demand for them when people realised you could have a, pretty much, new pair of Altberg boots for £50 however there are still some of the Haix ones about. I ordered "grade 1" from these folks and when they arrived they were brand new and had never been worn:
Footwear - British Military Surplus
I've been looking at Altberg defenders on this site, after being impressed with a pair I saw in an Army surplus, but they are out of stock at the moment which at those prices I am not surprised! Worryingly they don't guarantee which width fitting you are going to get - so you have a 50% chance of not getting the right boot...