Grivel Stories

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...

Mountaineering

North Face of Eiger? Twice in a week! By Yannick Graziani

Published on 30/4/2021 Hello my dedicated climbing friends!I don’t really know how I came to climb the north face of the Eiger twice in a week at t...

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...

Adventure

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.co...

Adventure

On the Matterhorn off the beaten track. By Stefano (Teto) Stradelli

Published 16/10/20 Route "Innocenzo Menabreaz - Per Nio”, Matterhorn south face, opened by Hervé Barmasse and Patrick Poletto on 14th August, 2000....

Adventure

From Zero to Capanna Margherita - a new record (14h 18m 21s) by Nico Valsesia

Published on 04/09/20 In the previous weeks I had been on Monte Rosa with the mountain bike champion Marzio Deho and with Mattia Torraco, my dear f...

Adventure

Sarek - The last wilderness of Europe - by Emma Svensson

Published on 07/08/2020 There is a place in Scandinavia, a huge area in Northern Sweden where there is no trails, no mountain huts, no cell recepti...

Climbing

Divine Providence by Damien Tomasi

Published on 23/07/2020 Open on July 5th to 8th, 1984, "Divine Providence" is perhaps one of the biggest routes in the Mont-Blanc massif... And alr...

Mountaineering

BRENVA SPUR “one shot” by DENIS TRENTO

Published on 26/05/2020 The period we have just lived (or rather not lived) will probably be remembered in history books like the Great Wars. It co...

Mountaineering

First winter traverse of the Furggen, Matterhorn, Grandes Murailles and Petites Murailles chains by FranÇois Cazzanelli

A dream comes true: First winter traverse of the Furggen, Matterhorn, Grandes Murailles and Petites Murailles chains. Read the full article by Fran...

Mountaineering

Patagonia. A land of vertical dreams in the far south of the world by Silvia Loreggian

Intact granite pinnacles, snow mushrooms that crown the peaks, ridge lines with an unequivocal profile… this and much more is Patagonia, land of th...

Mountaineering

THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE

The story of our friend Luca Morellato, who survived an avalanche at 5.300 m in the Ishkoman Valley, in the district of Ghizer (Pakistan), reminds ...