Grivel Stories

Adventure

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 ...

Expeditions

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 F...

Adventure

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...

Adventure

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 (Denal...

Expeditions

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....

Expeditions

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 sav...

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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 gr...

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Nims and Grivel

Published on 25.02.2022 - We are proud to announce our new partnership with Nimsdai “Nims” Purja and his company Elite Exped.

Expeditions

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 kn...

Adventure

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. Th...

Expeditions

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 the...

Adventure

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 thi...