I started carrying Randall knives on expeditions because I was shamed into it by a die hard Randall user, former National Geographic cinematographer Ralph White. Ralph would chide me by saying "You're not a real explorer unless you carry a Randall!" When I looked into RMK's history, I found out that he was right.

So far, I have carried the following Randall Models into the field: 5, 15, 16, 16 SPF and 17. It's great to see the real explorers eyes' light up when they see them, like the time Scott Carpenter lit into a guy on a dive boat for referring to my 16 as an "unnecessarily large dive knife." Scott snapped "That's a Randall! Don't you know anything?" It still makes me smile to think about it.