The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket — Summit Gold/Black

The Retro Nuptse. Summit Gold. The Hood Nobody Expects.

The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Summit Gold/Black is the Nuptse in its most iconic colourway: Summit Gold body and sleeves against a black shoulder yoke and stand collar. The stand collar reads as a clean, no-hood silhouette — until you reach into it and pull out the concealed packable hood stored inside. The retro Nuptse formula is otherwise unchanged: horizontal block baffles throughout, 700-fill down insulation, TNF box logo on chest and back yoke, full-length front zip, and the boxy hip-length cut that has made the Nuptse the most recognisable down jacket silhouette in the world.

• Summit Gold/Black two-tone colour-block — the Nuptse’s most iconic and immediately recognisable colourway: a bold Summit Gold body and sleeves contrasted against a black shoulder/yoke panel and black stand collar — the combination that defined the original Nuptse’s visual identity and makes this the most identifiable version of the jacket in the range
• Concealed packable hood inside the stand collar — the jacket’s most surprising detail: a packable hood stored entirely within the black stand collar that deploys when needed for full head and face coverage — giving the 1996 Retro Nuptse the clean stand-collar silhouette of a no-hood jacket and the practicality of a fully hooded one
• Classic Nuptse horizontal block baffles — wide horizontal block baffles across the full front body, back, and sleeves — the Nuptse’s original construction that holds the 700-fill down evenly in place and gives the jacket its characteristic rounded, heavily insulated volume and silhouette
• 700-fill down insulation — 700-fill power down packed throughout the full body and sleeves for substantial, even warmth across the jacket’s boxy hip-length silhouette — the fill specification the Nuptse has carried since its introduction
• TNF box logo on chest and back yoke — The North Face box logo embroidered in white on the left chest and on the back yoke — the brand’s original logo mark placed against the Summit Gold and black panels in the jacket’s highest-contrast positions
• High stand collar in black concealing the hood — the black stand collar that seals the neck completely and houses the packable hood within — the structural detail that gives the 1996 Retro its clean hooded-or-not silhouette and visually separates it from the standard Nuptse
• Full-length front zip — a smooth full-length front zip that seals the jacket completely from hem to stand collar — tonal black against the black yoke panel, keeping the colour-block transition clean and uninterrupted
• Two side hand pockets — two zippered hand pockets on the lower front body — set within the Summit Gold lower body panel and proportioned to the Nuptse’s boxy silhouette
• Snap-adjustable elasticated cuffs — elasticated cuffs with snap adjusters in the contrast black fabric — sealing warmth at the wrist and allowing the sleeve end to be tightened or opened for layering
• Boxy hip-length Nuptse silhouette — the Nuptse’s original boxy, hip-length cut with the substantial volume and proportions that the 1996 Retro edition preserves exactly as the jacket was originally built

Summit Gold. Hidden hood. 700-fill. The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse — the original colourway, the original construction.