Grivel Stories

Experience

Story of a stolen book: how Bonatti changed my life by Marek Raganowicz

Published on 08/02/2022 The story dedicated to Walter Bonatti and his mountaineering and literary legacy starts from an event, duly fictionalized, ...

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...

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...