These were the winners after an exhaustive hiking boots research, I was looking mainly for lightness, comfortability, support arch & ankle, anti-skid outsole, durability, high quality and the kind of design like Lara Croft would wear, yes sounds such boots would cost over 500 - 1000. But surprisingly these fill all the requirements they blown my mind, btw I have narrow feet and even though these aren't narrow my feet don't swim on them.