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...
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History
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...
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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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History
Climbing in history: Bonatti Route on the North Face of Matterhorn by Damien Tomasi
Published 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...
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History
The revolutionary, the killer and the ice axe by Marina Morpurgo
Published 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...
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History
Coleridge and the first sport climb in history by Marina Morpurgo
Published 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...
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History
The engineer, the crampon and the beast by Marina Morpurgo
Published 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...
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History
It looks shit, but it was actually ok - movie
Ice climbing gear has lived a long and fascinating evolution. Discover it in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio Marlier. To each...
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Climbing
The dawn of sport climbing in Aosta Valley. Memories of a protagonist by Guido Azzalea
Published 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 ...
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History
Steel Points in the Grivel forge - 1956 documentary
This 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...
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History
The history of carabiners
What do you know on the evolution of carabiners? Their history will help you choose the right carabiner for your needs.
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