The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket Mountain Print Black Collar

The Icon. The Print. The One Everyone Wants.

The The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket in Mountain Print with Black Collar is the most collectible, most culturally significant, and most instantly recognisable limited-print colourway of the jacket that defined a generation of outerwear — the 1996 Nuptse, reissued in its original boxy silhouette, now wearing a dramatic all-over mountain and glacier print that maps the world's most extreme terrain across the jacket's most iconic silhouette. A white and deep blue mountain topography print shell, a contrasting black quilted upper yoke and collar — the Nuptse's signature black-and-body colourblocking — the iconic THE NORTH FACE square badge on the left chest, dual hand pockets, and premium 700-fill goose down insulation throughout. The 1996 Retro Nuptse in Mountain Print is not just a jacket. It is a piece of outdoor culture history in a print that nobody who sees it ever forgets.

Key Features

• All-Over Mountain Topography Print Shell — A dramatic all-over print featuring white, deep navy blue, and grey mountain glacier and topography patterns — one of the most visually arresting and most collectible prints ever applied to the 1996 Nuptse silhouette; a print that references the world's most extreme mountain terrain and the TNF expeditions that mapped it
• Iconic Black Upper Yoke & Collar Colourblocking — The signature 1996 Nuptse black quilted upper yoke and stand collar — the most immediately recognisable design detail of the Nuptse silhouette, creating the classic black-and-body contrast that has defined this jacket since 1996
• THE NORTH FACE Square Badge on Chest — The iconic THE NORTH FACE square logo badge in white on the left chest — the brand's most recognised mark on the brand's most iconic silhouette
• Original 1996 Boxy Retro Silhouette — The original 1996 boxy, oversized Nuptse silhouette — the cut that launched a thousand imitations and has never been successfully replicated; the shape that defines the Retro Nuptse as the original and only
• 700-Fill Premium Goose Down Insulation — Premium 700-fill goose down insulation — serious warmth in the most packable and most wearable format in The North Face lineup; the same specification that made the original 1996 Nuptse the standard for expedition-grade short jackets
• Dual Hand Pockets — Two hand pockets with the Nuptse's signature clean pocket integration — functional warmth and storage in a silhouette that prioritises the uninterrupted print panel above all else

The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse in Mountain Print is the jacket that street culture, outdoor culture, and fashion culture have agreed on for three decades — and now in the print that makes it impossible to ignore. The topography. The black yoke. The square badge. The boxy cut that never gets old. This is the Nuptse that collectors look for, the Nuptse that sell out first, and the Nuptse that people are still talking about long after the season ends.