Petzl Borea Women’s Climbing Helmet

Petzl Borea women’s climbing helmet is the brand new creation of the French brand conceived to replace the Elia helmet and conceived for a multipurpose use ranging from climbing, mountaineering, caving, to via ferrata and canyoning.

Designed and studied specifically for women, this helmet has reduced sizes (one size 52-58 cm), more rounded lines and a fantastic super innovative Petzl patent called Omega: this consists of a head turn with a very marked opening to allow women with long hair to wear in helmets without having to engineer first and understand how to put their hair. Finally we women can also put on a ponytail helmet!

Borea was born in the wake of an innovative change of philosophy and provides a new type of protection, called Top and Side Protection, and a new closing and adjustment system.

To date, the traditional Petzl climbing and mountaineering helmets that comply with the legislation relating to falling rocks from above, have a lateral band made of a thin sheet that would not protect you from a side impact.

Borea is revolutionary because it guarantees total protection from falling rocks from above and from side impacts thanks to the new hybrid construction with thick ABS shell, an EPP foam shell and an EPS foam shell that promotes compactness on the head.

Petzl plans to reinforce Borea in the two side bands with a layer of foam that runs through the entire internal volume of the helmet.

Borea absorbs the energy of an impact, from above, laterally, frontally and from the rear.