Best lightweight sleeping bag

Best Lightweight Sleeping Bag

Sleeping bags are an essential piece of kit with lightweight options improving the convenience of your trip. This award celebrates the best lightweight sleeping bag of the 2025 season.

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The Vango Mantis Planet

Best Lightweight Sleeping Bag

Vango Mantis Planet

The new Vango Mantis Planet is a lightweight sleeping bag designed for backpacking in warmer temperatures either at home or abroad. Made from ripstop nylon, the bag weighs under 1kg and the pack can be compressed small to easily fit in your rucksack. The Mantis Planet is fitted with mosquito nets at the head and foot, to keeps midges, mosquitos and other biting bugs away, without reducing your comfort levels after a day on the hills.

Vango’s ThermX tech features aluminised fabric layers placed around specific areas in the bag to reflect body heat, with the aim of increasing overall warmth and heat retention where you need it. 

The full wrap-around zip allows you to convert the bag into a large quilt for more space. 

Highly Commended

easy camp Falcon

For 2025, Scandinavian brand, easy camp, has shifted its focus from cheap ’n’ cheerful family camping to more serious outdoor adventures – but making sure that its products remain easy to use and are affordable.

The Falcon range of lightweight sleeping bags are great quality and start at a very reasonable price of around £40.

The Easy Camp Falcon
The Therm-a-Rest Boost 650

Highly Commended

Therm-a-Rest Boost 650

The semi-rectangular shape of the innovative new Boost gives you more room to move, but in colder temperatures the central zipper can be closed, transforming the bags into the traditional mummy shape and boosting the temperature by up to 6°C. 

View the rest of the awards here

View the rest of the awards

The Out & About Live Camping Awards take every tent launched during the new season into consideration, with our judges travelling to manufacturers and shows all across Europe to find the best. Each decision is made using a thorough examination process by editors with decades of experience. Discover the best of the other awards here!

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