Grivel Stories

Mushin - 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...

EVEREST - Then & Now

Published on 24/10/2023 The timeless appeal of the world's highest mountain in the words of Rinaldo Carrel (first Italian to summit, in 1973) and François Cazzanelli (who climbed it in 2018), with ...

The Crystal Ship - First ascent of Pumari Chhish East (6850m)

Published on 28/02/2023 3 friends and un unclimbed summit at 6850m in Karakoram. A long wait due to bad weather and then an unexpected good weather window that allowed them to fulfill their dream. ...

THE SLOVAK - Reflections on Light & Fast Alpinism

Published on 27/07/2022 Steve House and Alan Rousseau: reflections on light & fast Alpinism, from their experiences on the Slovak Direct (Denali) one of the most legendary routes in the Alaska ...

WIELICKI - The Lord of winter

Published on 25/05/22 “I believe that mine was an entire generation who really wanted to leave their name written in the history of mountaineering. It was also a historical paradox that it was prec...

Superleggeri Grivel: the crampons that pushed mountaineering above 8000m by Gian Luca Gasca

Published on 06.05.2022 "They climbed the slope with crampons, without cutting steps - as desirable as they might seem - because they wanted to save energy". Thus the Alpine Journal on the exploits...

STOP WAR

Published on 10/03/2022 - We have now decided to temporarily stop deliveries to Russia. We believe that the sum of many small actions can have a great impact.

Spongebob, Hello Kitty and Iceman in Pakistan by Yannick Graziani

Published on 19/01/2022 Hey hey!  It’s on a windy autumn day in Chamonix that I finally began to write this story. Like often in life, you don’t know when the right moment is until it’s upon you.  ...

POLAR SHADOWS by Vincent Colliard

Published on 22/10/2021Polar Shadows by Vincent Colliard: 63 days, 1100 km unsupported, temperatures till -40, sledges of 290 kg, 2 warm hearts. These are the numbers of the polar expedition made b...

Expeditions at the time of COVID by Giampaolo Corona

Published on 19/05/2021 This is my fifteenth mountaineering expedition between the Himalayas, Karakoram and Hindu Kush, but if I prefer to call them journeys, life experiences.This time the destina...

First ascent of Kyunga Ri 2 – 6506m by Sophie Lavaud

Published on 22/01/2021 On December 16, 2020, here we are back in Kathmandu after this superb adventure in the Langtang valley where we climbed this virgin summit the Kyungya Ri 2 which culminates ...

Arrigetch Peaks: An Arctic climbing expedition in Alaska

Published 23/10/20 Written by Natalie Afonina, an alpine/ice climber and roboticist living in the USA  Find her on Instagram or www.natexploring.com The Arrigetch Peaks, meaning ‘fingers of an outs...

TAGHIA CLIMBING EXPEDITION - GOING INTO THE MOROCCAN MIDDLE ATLAS by Silvia Loreggian

Published on 30/06/2020 Taghia is a village of 600 inhabitants lost in the Moroccan Middle Atlas. Staying in Taghia means immersing yourself in another era and in a lifestyle that has nothing to do...

Attempt to Pangpoche by Emrik Favre

“It is not always the summit that gives you happiness, often the journey and the efforts we undertake to get where we can go are enough” Emrik Favre tells us about the difficulties encountered duri...

Manaslu 8163 m "An Himalayan expedition out of the box", by Francois Cazzanelli

Manaslu at high speed: the last Himalayan venture of our friend Francois Cazzanelli.

Around Nanga Parbat on skis by Yannick Graziani

The essence of mountaineering is to understand that we are where we need to be, and where we were in this immense bare ground, we fully enjoyed this satisfaction, two black dots lost in the immensity.

Shivling 2017 by Vittorio Messini

The new route opened is called "Shiva's Ice", Gharwhal Himalaya, was completed in 3 days and has difficulties up to M6 and WI5, to about 1000 meters of climbing.

Revelation glacier expedition 2019 by Janez Svoljšak

Slovenian mountaineers Janez Svoljšak has completed a series of climbs in remote mountains of Alaska on routes that no human ever set foot on before, conquering three virgin peaks in the process.

Two Denalis in one week By François Cazzanelli

A double excellent result that repays the Grivel athete  of the efforts made during the meticulous preparation throughout the winter.