Exped
Exped Mega Pillow (52 x 32 x 12 cm)
- Weight: 3/10 How much it adds to your pack.
- Packed size: 6/10 How much room it takes in your rucksack.
Side sleepers who want a pillow close to a home one
- Type
- Hybrid
- Weight
- 260 g
- Height
- 12 cm
- Size
- 52 x 32 cm
Packed size 1 L, 13 cm long and 9.9 cm across Compare with a 2-litre bottle
Shorter than a 2-litre bottle and about as wide as one. Drawn to scale.
Where to buy
Alpinetrek £49.35 In stock. Delivery £4.49. Cypress and Burgundy; free delivery from £85.
View at shop: AlpinetrekTamarack Outdoors £51 In stock. Free delivery. Cypress; the shop crosses out £60; free Royal Mail delivery over £50.
View at shop: Tamarack OutdoorsExped UK £60 In stock. Delivery £6. Cypress; DPD next day £6.00 under £75, free over £75.
View at shop: Exped UKPrices checked 8 Nov 2026 on each shop's own page; shops can change them. We earn no commission on these links; shops are listed by price. More
Our ratings (out of 10)
1 to 10, compared with the whole market. Each says what it's based on. How we score
Weight
From maker's figures 3/10How much it adds to your pack. 3: Below average. Fine for some trips, not others.
Brand lists 260 g for the one size, in the 200–299 g band. CleverHiker and Treeline both list about 260 g for the current version, and Alpinetrek lists 278 g (same band). Tamarack's page still prints 170 g, the earlier version's weight, which the brand's 260 g and the testers do not support; the figure that scores lower is banded.
Packed size
From maker's figures 6/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 6: A bit better than average.
The brand does not publish a packed size, so a tester's figure stands in. Treeline Review gives about 9.9 x 13 cm (listed in its table and text) for the current version: 3.1416 x 4.95 x 4.95 x 13 = about 1,000 cm³, about 1.0 L, at the foot of the 1.0–1.99 L band. CleverHiker also says it packs to about a one-litre bottle. Treeline rounds its size, so it could be a little above or below 1.0 L; the band that scores lower is used.
In short
Good for
- Side sleepers who want a pillow close to a home one
- Car camping, campervans and short trips where pack space is not tight
- Use with a thick mat: eyelets on the sides let you cord it down
Strengths
- 52 x 32 x 12 cm: a wide, flat sleeping surface with near-vertical sides
- Fleece-like microfibre topper over a baffled air cell; CleverHiker found it the most comfortable air pillow it had tried
- Height and firmness adjusted by letting air out
- Air cell lifts out so the cover can be washed
- Fabric eyelets on the sides for fixing it to a mat
- 5-year warranty from Exped
Weaknesses
- 260 g and a packed size of about 1 L (Treeline, CleverHiker): heavy for ultralight use
- The brand publishes no packed size; the figure comes from Treeline's measurement
- No fast-dump valve, so packing away takes longer (CleverHiker)
- Too wide for a sleeping bag hood (Treeline)
- Only two tests of the current version so far
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.