
The story of Toni Gobbi: from citizen to mountain guide - by Oliviero Gobbi
Published on 12/08/2022 Toni Gobbi was a mountaineer, a mountain guide, a ski instructor and an entrepreneur. Born in Pavia in 1914 and raised in V...
Read morePublished on 12/08/2022 Toni Gobbi was a mountaineer, a mountain guide, a ski instructor and an entrepreneur. Born in Pavia in 1914 and raised in V...
Read morePublished on 06.05.2022 "They climbed the slope with crampons, without cutting steps - as desirable as they might seem - because they wanted to sav...
Read morePublished on 07/12/2021For about fifteen years, from 1950 to 1965, Walter Bonatti was certainly the best mountaineer in the world.15 years during w...
Read morePublished on 09/07/2021 It is a just after 6 pm on the 20th of August 1940, when an ambulance arrives at Avenida Rio Churubusco in the suburb of Co...
Read morePublished on 7/05/2021 On a Saturday morning in August 1802, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge exits from Greta Hall - the great house in Keswick in...
Read morePublished on 26/03/2021 Courmayeur, 1909. A badly dressed guy with a big brown beard enters the workshop of the blacksmith Henri Grivel, with a dra...
Read moreIce climbing gear has lived a long and fascinating evolution. Discover it in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio Marlier. To each...
Read morePublished on 16/06/2020 It was the year 1970, I had attended a course of introduction to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Aosta. The lessons ...
Read moreThis exceptional video from 1956 shows how our ice axes and crampons were produced in those years. Many things have changed since then, but our pas...
Read moreWhat do you know on the evolution of carabiners? Their history will help you choose the right carabiner for your needs.
Read moreWhile modern ice axes have much better technical and mechanical features, no tool can compete in beauty and elegance with the traditional wooden ic...
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