The captain was the first helmet I ever bought and I would wear it sport climbing a few times here and there, easy climbs or climbs that looked a bit more sketchy but probably 75% of time I would just climb lidless. It bought the old Vapour because I got a good deal on it and it’s night and day when sport climbing, now wear a helmet 99.99% of the time because there’s virtually no excuse not to now apart from vanity. I’ve just come back from Kalymnos and wore it to b every climb there except the odd time when I’ve just forgot to put it on, it’s a fantastic helmet and now I feel naked without it. This is from somewhere who never even owned a helmet for about 10 years of my climbing life.

I've tried both those models on and really wanted a Capitan for a winter roughty-toughty lid, but I still don't have a BD shaped head and ended up buying Petzl helmets again as I have done every decade or so since the Meteors first came out in the 90s! Annoying, but neither will be much good if your head is the wrong shape!

Which would you take on a Scottish winter route? Recently, I had a Petzl Sirocco caved in by a fist sized block of ice on Ben Nevis. Was glad to have been wearing a helmet of course but I imagine a hard shell would probably have survived

Come on lads, at least invert and land on your heads. What kind of test is that?