Grivel Stories

Expeditions

EVEREST - Then & Now

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 NOIRE - Climbing in The Shadow of Mont Blanc

Published on 10/8/2023Light and dark, adventure and exploration, friendship and cold … On February 12th and 13th 2023 François Cazzanelli, Emrik Fa...

Climbing

From D15 to 9a by Angelika Rainer

My entry into the world of ice and dry-tooling happened by pure chance. When I was 18 years old, in 2005, after having already been sport climbing ...

Climbing

El Puma 9a - Marcello Bombardi

Published on 31/05/2023 "In the last few years I have freed a couple of these routes, a little bit more isolated, hidden, bolted many years ago. I ...

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...

Climbing

SAXARATE REALITY - Marco Sappa

Published on 29/09/2022 “From a crack climbing point of view it really has nothing to envy to many other great classics I've climbed … Having it he...

Climbing

BEYOND THE ROCK - Climbing in Corsica video series

What is climbing? Let's try to discover it in this series, with a group of strong climbers around Corsica.

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...

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...

Experience

The art of surviving by Marek Raganowicz

Published on 19/07/2022 Between April 17th and May 21st, Marek Raganowicz opened MikroKozmik Variations (VII, A4 +, M5) in the Polar Sun Arm,Baffin...

Adventure

MATTERHORN Big Wall

Published on 13/06/2022 3 friends and mountaineers, 2 routes linked together according to a visionary project, 1 iconic mountain in the heart of th...

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...