Volume25 L
Dimensions51 × 31 × 13 cm
Laptop16 inches
TabsFull-grain leather
Topo Designs · Klettersack 25L
A buckled flap, four leather tabs: from the office to the trail.
The Klettersack is the classic Topo Designs backpack: 25 litres of recycled 1000D nylon, a flap with two buckles over a drawcord, four full-grain leather lash tabs. From campus to the meeting room, your 16-inch slides into its sleeve under the flap. On Saturday, with a fleece under the drawcord, it heads out onto the trail, tall and slim against your back.
Office · Campus · Hiking
The 16-inch under the flap, the water bottle on the side.

To scale
51 cm tall and 12.7 cm deep: a 16-inch laptop stands upright inside.
30.5 cm wide: a tall, slim pack that stays close to your back on the train and on the trail.
- Klettersack50.8 × 30.5 × 12.7 cm
- 16-inch laptop36 × 25 cm, upright in the bag
- A4 sheet29.7 × 21 cm
Laptop
A 16-inch under the flap, a 15-inch in the outer sleeve.
Under the flap, a sleeve takes most 16-inch laptops. The second, padded, opens from the outside, along the back panel, and takes most 15-inch laptops: the laptop comes out without undoing the buckles.
16 inches
Inner sleeve, most 16-inch laptops; outer sleeve, most 15-inch laptops.


What fits inside
25L
25 litres under the flap: the laptop, a fleece, a water bottle on each side.
The flap closes with two buckles and carries a zipped pocket. Beneath it, a drawcord cinches the main compartment, lined in yellow. On the sides, two compression straps pull the pack in when it's half empty.
- A 16-inch laptop, in the inner sleeve
- Keys, in the zipped pocket on the flap
- A water bottle in each side pocket
Inside and out
Packed in front of you: under the flap, then a water bottle on each side.
The details
Four full-grain leather tabs, shoulder straps backed with seatbelt webbing.



Worn
On your back in the forest, under a tent, on a bench.
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Alpine Meadow
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Salsa
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Alpine Meadow
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Midnight, Alpine Meadow, Salsa
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Midnight
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Salsa
The range
Klettersack or Rover: the same buckled flap, not the same height.

Rover Pack Classic 20L
20 L · 0.7 kg · 43 × 28 × 11 cm
The everyday Rover: a 15-inch laptop in the sleeve, two bottle pockets.
See the Rover Pack Classic 20L
Rover Pack Tech
24.3 L · 43 × 28 × 12.7 cm
For the office: two 15-inch sleeves, one inside and one outside, and a fully padded compartment.
See the Rover Pack Tech
Klettersack 25L
25 L · 51 × 31 × 13 cm
The tallest: four leather tabs, a 16-inch inside, a 15-inch in the outer sleeve.
This bag
Photos to the same scale, by height: 43, 43 and 51 cm.
In the rain
A rainy day: the laptop goes into a case.
Not made for rain
Recycled nylon fabric
In steady rain, water eventually gets through: anything that mustn't get wet goes in a pouch.
This bag
Water-resistant
Water-resistant fabric
The water-resistant fabric copes with a shower; in steady rain, water eventually gets through.
Water-repellent
PFC-free water-repellent finish
A PFC-free durable water repellent (DWR) finish makes water bead up on the fabric. It doesn't make the bag waterproof: in steady rain, water eventually gets through.
Before heading out into steady rain, slip the laptop into a case.
Topo Designs
A sewing machine in a Fort Collins basement, in 2008.
Jedd Rose buys a sewing machine and sews the first bags in his basement in Fort Collins, Colorado; Mark Hansen asks around for people who can make them.
The two founders wanted gear like the kit they grew up with: tough, practical, classic, the opposite of throwaway and overcomplicated. The same bag goes from the city to the trail.
Topo Designs guarantees its bags against defects in materials and workmanship for a reasonable lifetime, excluding normal wear, accidents and lack of care, and would rather repair than replace. For a bag bought from Eiken, the claim goes through us.
Eiken's take
- Why we chose it
- A buckled flap, four leather tabs and two sleeves, one of them for a 16-inch: the Klettersack carries the weekday laptop and the Saturday fleece.
- Worth knowing
- The outer sleeve stops at most 15-inch laptops: a 16-inch goes in the inner sleeve, under the flap.
- Who it's for
- For the office and campus, with leather and the look of old mountain packs; for hiking with a hip belt, it's the Rover Trail Pack.
Baptiste, Eiken
Specifications
- Volume25 L
- Dimensions50.8 × 30.5 × 12.7 cm (height × width × depth)
- Laptopinner sleeve, most 16-inch laptops; padded outer sleeve, most 15-inch laptops
- Closureflap with two clip buckles over a drawcord
- Storagemain compartment, zipped pocket on the flap, zipped security pocket inside, two bottle pockets
- Attachmentsfour full-grain leather lash tabs, two side compression straps
- Carrypadded shoulder straps reinforced with seatbelt webbing, top grab handle
- Zipsreinforced YKK
- Fabricrecycled 1000D nylon; recycled 210D nylon lining; full-grain leather tabs
- Made inVietnam, Fair Trade certified factory
- Topo Designs guaranteedefects in materials and workmanship, for a reasonable lifetime
- Topo Designs reference932605 (Alpine Meadow: 932605385)
Specifications and dimensions: Topo Designs data (topodesigns.com and topodesigns.eu, October 2026); dimensions converted from inches.
Questions
What are the dimensions of the Klettersack?
50.8 × 30.5 × 12.7 cm (height, width, depth), for 25 litres.
Is the Klettersack waterproof?
No, it isn't made for rain: in steady rain, water eventually soaks through its recycled nylon fabric. Put anything that mustn't get wet in a pouch.
What size laptop fits in the Klettersack?
Most 16-inch laptops in the inner sleeve, under the flap. The padded outer sleeve takes most 15-inch laptops and opens without undoing the buckles.
Klettersack or Rover Pack Classic?
The Klettersack, 25 litres and 50.8 cm tall, takes a 16-inch in its inner sleeve, has a second sleeve on the outside and carries four leather tabs. The Rover Pack Classic, 20 litres and 43.2 cm, takes a 15-inch. Both close with a flap with two buckles over a drawcord.
Does the Klettersack fit in the cabin or under the seat?
As a cabin bag, its 50.8 × 30.5 × 12.7 cm fit within the 55 × 40 × 20 cm limit. Under the seat, at 51 cm tall it's over both easyJet's under-seat bag (45 × 36 × 20 cm) and Ryanair's (40 × 30 × 20 cm). Size limits checked in October 2026: check with your airline.




