{"id":47324,"date":"2020-01-23T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/hiking-poles\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T08:50:24","slug":"hiking-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/en\/hiking-poles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do We Need Trekking Poles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trekking poles are special walking sticks for those who are doing active sports or tourism. People have always used walking sticks: disabled people, shepherds, and aristocrats of the 19th<\/sup> century. A cane is also popular in works of the fantasy genre, when an old wizard walks with a large cane in his hand. People realized that for long walks they need to create an additional point of support in order to more efficiently distribute weight and relieve stress from the legs.<\/p>\n

The Leki Company presented trekking poles in their modern form in 1974. They named the model “Makalu” after the famous mountain. After that, many different companies started to produce trekking poles. They became very popular throughout the world and to this day continue to be one of the most important parts of the hiker’s and mountaineer’s equipment.<\/p>\n\n