The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket – Men's Khaki

The Nuptse. The Original. In Its Most Grounded Colour.

The The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Khaki is the Retro Nuptse in the colourway that takes the jacket’s utilitarian credentials and makes them visible — the warm, earthy tone that sits at the intersection of the Nuptse’s outdoor heritage and its streetwear authority, worn by those who want the 1996 design’s cultural weight in a colourway of genuine grounded purpose. The same boxy oversized silhouette. The same bold quilted baffles. The same 700-fill goose down insulation. The same faithful reissue of the jacket that defined mid-90s outerwear. In the colour that connects it most directly to the functional tradition it was built from.

Key Features

• 700-fill goose down insulation — the exceptional warmth-to-weight ratio of the original 1996 Nuptse, delivering the same outstanding cold-weather performance across three decades of wear
• Iconic boxy, oversized silhouette — the generous, relaxed fit that was ahead of its time in 1996 and has never stopped being exactly right since, in the khaki that makes it most connected to its utilitarian origins
• Bold quilted baffle construction — the large, distinctive baffles that give the Nuptse its unmistakable profile, reading with particular warmth and depth in khaki
• Zip-off hood — the original’s functional versatility, faithfully retained in the Retro reissue
• Packable design — compresses into its own pocket for travel and storage without compromising the down fill quality
• The North Face logo — the half-dome marque of the brand that has equipped serious outdoor pursuits since 1966

Khaki. The Nuptse Rooted.

The black Nuptse is the standard. The khaki Nuptse is the origin — the colour that takes the 1996 design back to the outdoor and functional tradition it emerged from and presents it in the tone that the mountain and the street share equally. Khaki on the Retro Nuptse is not a fashion choice in the conventional sense. It is a heritage choice: the colour of field gear, of serious outdoor equipment, of the utilitarian tradition that The North Face has drawn on since 1966 — now worn on the jacket that crossed that tradition over into culture and has never fully come back from either side. Worn by those who want both: the cultural authority of the 1996 Nuptse and the grounded, purposeful character of the colourway that connects it most honestly to where it came from. The North Face since 1966. The Nuptse, since 1996. Khaki, rooted in both.