Lime green Norrøna hooded jacket with black zippers.

Mountaineeringtrollveggen

2010The Red Dot Product Design Award

The new trollveggen Gore-Tex Pro Shell jacket received the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award, one of the world's leading honors for industrial design.

Developed for demanding alpine use, the jacket combined cutting-edge materials, technical functionality, and Norrøna’s distinctive design philosophy of Loaded Minimalism™.

The award marked an important international recognition of the company’s growing influence in technical outdoor apparel and reinforced trollveggen’s status as one of the most advanced mountain collections on the market.

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