External Frame Pack
- Outdoors
- 1950s–
- Not stated
- Secondhand only
Speeed’s take
Aerospace surplus applied to camping: the original aluminium-frame pack, built by a Boeing worker, and the template every pack in the video after it is descended from.
“Dick Kelty, a Boeing aircraft worker, built one of the first commercial aluminum frame backpacks. And by the late 1950s, the Kelty pack became the gold standard for serious backpackers.”
