As you would expect from Lowa, these Tibet GTX boots are very well made. The materials used, the stitching and the workmanship are all excellent. The fit on my C - D foot is good as well... The medium really is a medium, neither too narrow or too wide... Also, I buy my hiking boots at least a size and a half above my normal street shoes to allow plenty of room in front of the toes... Sometimes this means that the shoes I order are too loose in the heel, but that has not happened with these....They fit nicely all around even though over-sized...
One thing to consider when you order is that these shoes are from a European company... In my experience, this means that their sizes are not quite the same as equivalent US ones....For example, European boots listed as size 12 will actually be more like 11.5, a size 13 will fit like a 12.5, and so forth....
In some of the previous reviews, a number of customers had said that the soles tended to de-laminate and separate from the shoes when they are used in wet conditions... The soles on this 2023 pair are different than the soles in the catalog pictures... These new soles are all black; not gray... I think this means that the de-lamination problem has been worked on....I will have to field test them before commenting on their durability..
In brief, my initial impression is that these are excellent, comfortable boots ....
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