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A nasty foot fungus spreads through boots in Caroline Hut

How I brought my boots back from the brink

Most mountaineers follow the same practice when drying their boots. You remove the insoles, stuff them with newspaper and leave them somewhere warm overnight. It’s nice and simple and it works. Unfortunately at Caroline Hut the practice also involved saving and randomly reusing the old bits of rolled up newspaper the next day. This inevitably led to cross contamination which in turn caused the spread of some kind of mega fungus from one person’s boots to everyone else’s.

By the time I reached Australian Customs on the way home the smell from my boots was enough to alert a customs officer even though they were buried deep in my bag. They were truly putrid.

A year later my boots had not yet recovered so I purchased a new pair for a very hansom sum indeed.  So you can imagine how horrified I was when a pair of socks managed to transfer the mega fungus from the old boots to the new ones within the first week. That’s when I decided to go head to head and do battle with the fungus. I wasn’t about to buy a third pair of boots! Thus I stumbled across the solution and I’m glad to share it with you all.

Here’s how to fix your smelly boots instantly - and for good! (more…)