Outside-the-Box Thinking: Helinox's Cot Tent

Years ago on a trip to Death Valley, I slept in a tiny one-man tent. The host had provided a cot inside to elevate the sleeping bag. Although the space was coffin-like, sleeping on the cot was far more comfortable than on the cold ground. Jake Lah, a veteran South Korean tent designer credited with revolutionizing the industry, has taken this a step further. If one is going to sleep on a cot inside a tent, his thinking goes, why should the tent contact the ground at all? Thus he designed a...