List of products by brand MILLET

Marc Millet and his wife open a workshop in Saint-Fons, near Lyon, to make some special bags and shopping bags, as they are designed with straps, a very innovative idea for the time.

Soon, this idea, along with the company’s move to the Alps in Annecy, evolved into a backpack, and in 1934, Millet created the first frame backpack. The sons of Marc Millet, Raymond and René, together with the mountaineer Louis Lachenal, took over the brand in 1945 and began to make backpacks adapted to high mountain activities. This transformation achieved its first success with the Annapurna 50 backpack and the ascent on June 3, 1950 of Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog to the legendary Annapurna summit.

After this milestone in world mountaineering, Millet continues to work hard and in 1964 manufactures the first backpack made entirely of nylon, the Sherpa 50. The brand continues to innovate and begins to expand its product catalog to create his first jacket with Gore-Tex in 1977. Only a year later, in 1978, Reinhold Messner joined the Millet team and made his first ascent of the oxygen-free Everest. This is the most important mountaineering milestone and the climb to the highest mountain in the world (8,848 meters) is done with a Millet jacket. After this feat, the people of Millet could have lived off their sporting and business successes. But the desire to do better and better is what characterizes the big brands and the French firm would not be less.