Grivel Stories
RSS feedPublished on 20/09/2024 “Often times being the first to do something, the first to imagine it, is what really counts, because let’s say once a performance like this exists, then the next climbers h...
Read more“Intégrale 2.0”: a new take on a legend by Damien Tomasi
Published on 06/09/2024 It must be 1 or 2 a.m. and, despite the cold and our only sleeping bag for two, I manage to fall asleep. But I'm regularly woken up by the sound of falling rocks in the Eccl...
Read moreGoulotte Gabarrou-Albinoni 1974-2024 - 50th anniversary
The 50th anniversary of a great classic goulotte in the Mont Blanc range, in the words of one of the protagonists, Patrick Gabarrou. English, Italian and French subtitles available.
Read moreCERRO NORA OESTE – ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY IN PATAGONIA BY LUCA SCHIERA
Published on 27/02/2024 I have always felt like a climber but the world of climbing and mountaineering, with more and more rules and conformism, is a bit tight for me. I want to clarify: I love cli...
Read moreMushin - Being Yasushi Yamanoi
Published on 14/12/2023 “Mushin" is a zen mental state achieved when a person's mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego during combat or everyday life, so the person is totally free to ac...
Read moreTHE NOIRE - Climbing in The Shadow of Mont Blanc
Published on 10/8/2023Light and dark, adventure and exploration, friendship and cold … On February 12th and 13th 2023 François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre and Stefano “Teto” Stradelli opened “Couloir I...
Read moreFrom D15 to 9a by Angelika Rainer
My entry into the world of ice and dry-tooling happened by pure chance. When I was 18 years old, in 2005, after having already been sport climbing for 6 years, I participated for fun and without an...
Read moreEl Puma 9a - Marcello Bombardi
Published on 31/05/2023 "In the last few years I have freed a couple of these routes, a little bit more isolated, hidden, bolted many years ago. I get so excited about this thing of being able to g...
Read moreSAXARATE REALITY - Marco Sappa
Published on 29/09/2022 “From a crack climbing point of view it really has nothing to envy to many other great classics I've climbed … Having it here at a stone's throw from home in Courmayeur with...
Read moreBEYOND THE ROCK - Climbing in Corsica video series
What is climbing? Let's try to discover it in this series, with a group of strong climbers around Corsica.
Read morePublished on 13/06/2022 3 friends and mountaineers, 2 routes linked together according to a visionary project, 1 iconic mountain in the heart of the Alps. MATTERHORN BIG WALL is out on our YouTube ...
Read moreLa Norte, triumph and tragedy on Cerro Torre by Tomas Roy Aguilò
Published on 07/04/2022First attempts on the North Face of Cerro Torre 17 years climbing in El Chalten… I can say that my path was progressive and full of enriching experiences. In 2013 we climbed...
Read moreFrançois Cazzanelli and Emrik Favre, together with Francesco Ratti, between the 27.2.2022 and 1.3.2022, made the first repetition and first winter ascent of “Padre Pio Prega Per Noi + Echelle Ver l...
Read moreLa cura 9A - Marcello Bombardi and Massimo Bal
Published on 20/12/2021 Last October Marcello Bombardi has freed “La Cura”, 9a in Ollomont (Italy), bolted by Massimo Bal. After 7 days on the route and many falls at the last move he managed to ...
Read morePublished on 17/09/2021 Climbing through history. On 26th June 2021 Alessandro Zeni and Enzo Oddo repeated Digital Crack, a unique line of 8a, located on a 50 m red granite monolith in the middle...
Read morePublished on 16/08/2021VERDON The show must go on: discover the evolution of a climbing mecca.
Read morePublished on 30/07/2021 What can we define socially useful? Climbers may see it differently! Beauty, adventure, fear, mind games … to each their own! Watch our new video “Socialmente Inutile” - Soc...
Read moreGREENSPIT - The psychologist in the crack
Published on 25/6/2021Greenspit is a 12-meter long horizontal crack that crosses a large 45° roof, in the Orco Valley, in north-western Italy.Watch the story of Marco Sappa, from a career in human ...
Read moreHow climbing has changed my life by Angelika Rainer
Published on 18/06/2021 "I didn't have many friends at school, and at the secondary school I was also bullied.Climbing has given me freedom, both physical and mental”. Our athlete Angelika Rainer c...
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