About Us
Our mission is to help you have warm feet!
Forty Below Ltd was founded in the 1970’s, first Incorporated in 1980, based on the serious need to have effective foot protection in extreme cold environments. The company founder, Bill Lokey of Tacoma, WA, built his first insulated boot covers, called “Overboots” in the late 1970’s. After his experience of several years in Antarctica and numerous expeditions around the world, he developed the original Forty Below® Mt. Everest™ model overboot, which became known and trusted in the worldwide mountaineering community.
Today, with over 40 years of experience, the Forty Below® line of products continue to be trusted and used on the most challenging of cold weather trips and expeditions around the world. Our goal is to provide functional insulating products for extreme environments for a wide range of users, from mountain climbers to all types of snow/ cold weather/ winter enthusiasts, both in recreation and industry.
We also make Forty Below® Brand insulated covers for bottles, specialized clothing, and a line of Forty Below® insulated covers for brewing products, as we are also active home brewers since the 1980’s. All of our products are carefully designed, and proudly hand crafted in the U.S.A, Canada, and other very special places of this incredible world.
We take pride in helping you achieve your goals, and look forward to helping you match up our products with your activities! You can call, write, or email us for information.
Telephone 253-846-2081 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM PST (near Mt. Rainier, about 25 miles west of the summit)
Email: Please use the “Contact Us” page in this website
Happy Adventures!
Joel Attaway
President, Forty Below Ltd.
Here are our Trademarks for Forty Below, Ltd.:
40 BELOW (TM)
FORTY BELOW ® Registered Trademarks
FORTY BELOW, LTD (TM)
Bottle Boot (TM)
Forty Below Purple Haze (TM)
Forty Below K2 Superlight (TM)
Forty Below Fresh Tracks (TM)
40 Below Camp Booties (TM)
Forty Below ZVB Vest (TM)
Forty Below Mt. Everest (TM)
Forty Below Penguins (TM)
Forty Below Can Boots (TM)
Forty Below Bottle Boots (TM)
Slogan: “Climbing Equipment for the Extremes” (TM)
“40 Below” is the name we use in addition to “Forty Below”, on our advertising, product naming, and labeling. We have been referred and labeled that way since inception of the origin commerce and company, starting in 1980. The term “Forty Below” is a multiple class Registered Trademark in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The terms “40 Below” and “Forty Below Ltd” are declared TRADEMARKS of Forty Below, Ltd. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Here are our Trademark Logos:


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