O.S.E store
Welcome to our expedition store.
New for winter 2008 we are proud to present the our "OS" bush knife. Designed for wilderness/survival use by Olly and Suzi in collaboration with Sweden's premier knife maker- Johan Stenevad and master bladesmith Matthias SAS.
The knife is limited to an edition of 8 blades. The blades are 4.5 inches of razor sharp Sandvick stainless steel and are both heat treated to Rockwell 59/60c for hardness and cryrogenically tempered for reliable use in freezing Arctic tempreatures.
The handles are made from stabilised birch and antique whale bone (on special request) and pinned with 2 thick stainless steel posts.
The overall lenght is approx 9 inches.
Each "OS"knife comes in a numbered handstiched waxed mooseskin sheath.
This knife is the ultimate hunting/utility/survival fixed blade and with due care it will last a life time of use.
Please ring +44 7768 511 706 for more details.
"There is no such thing as bad weather- just bad gear!"
From this summer O.S.E store will sell a variety of well desinged expedition clothing, gear and other useful and essential expedition products that, in our experience, is the best out there.
O.S.E Parka.
We are pleased to present our global expedition parka.
Designed in collaboration with Snowsled polar clothing in the UK (the suppliers to the British Antarctic survey and the worlds top polar explorers) our bespoke technical parka is made in single reinforced layer Ventile cotton. The finest most weather resistant cotton on earth.
The jacket features; 4 huge combat style cargo pockets with durable NATO buttons, low chest zip and side zip for excellent ventilation, adjustable wire storm hood, velco fastned leather trimed storm cuffs, reinforced elbow patches, reinforced double shoulder section for heavy rain, silent, 100 percent windproof, 100 percent breathable, rain proof and mosquito proof.
Our OSE expedition parka is designed to be worn next to the skin in desert and jungle environs and as an outer layer for polar and mountain environs.
Our Parka is avaliable in Olive green, navy blue, antique bronze and post-box red. This unisex smock is designed to be spacious to enable circulatuion and movement and comes sizes, S, M, L, XL, XXL.
All our parka's are made to order. price £480. Please ring for ordering details.
O.S.E patches.
O.S.E. tactical patches can be afixed to all expedition clothing. These beautifully made embroidered patches are currently adorning our new expedition parka's on our June trip to track Alaskan grizzlys with Mens Vogue.
The patches are 6 x 6cm in olive green and black. Price is £10 each.
Please email us on olly@ollysuziexpeditions.com or ring on 07796 156087 for more details.
Olly & Suzi's book : Arctic Desert Ocean Jungle
We are also offering our recently published book about our work in the wild. Many of the animals, places and guides we have worked with feature in this our first coffee table book.
In pursuit of their animal subjects, artists Olly & Suzi situate themselves in the subject's natural habitat the wild approaching as close as possible and working in tandem, they quickly capture it on paper using the day's particular combination of paints, brushes, burnt sticks, natural pigments, even blood on occasion, and then offer up the finished portrait to be paw-printed, tooth-markedbitten, or otherwise marked by the animal for authentication.
Their collaborators have included anacondas, crocodiles, polar bears, and great white sharks. Of course, occasionally a leopard decides to rip apart its own image, or a rhino devours the canvas whole. While yielding paintings of extraordinary beauty and power, Olly & Suzi consider their art performance-based and site-specific: sometimes the only thing they come away with from an expedition is their lives.
Spare, vibrant, and lyrical, the works that have survived Olly & Suzi's 15 years of adventures in such remote locales as Siberia, the North Pole, and Galapagos fill the pages of this equally boundary-defying book. Accompanied by dazzling photos that document the pair's unique process, these paintings take the reader on a dynamic journey to the world's remaining, though endangered, wild places.
Publisher; Harry. N. Abrams. NYC
Territory: All rights available
300 illustrations in full color, 272 pages, 10 3/16" x 12"
ISBN 0-8109-4266-6
EAN 978081094266-
April 2003
Additional photographs by Greg Williams
Introduction by Clive James
Essays by Dr. Steve Baker