Grivel Stories

STOP WAR

Published on 10/03/2022 - We have now decided to temporarily stop deliveries to Russia. We believe that the sum of many small actions can have a great impact.

First Winter Ascent of ‘Padre Pio Prega Per Noi and Echelle Ver le Ciel’ - Matterhorn by François Cazzanelli and team

François Cazzanelli and Emrik Favre, together with Francesco Ratti, between the 27.2.2022 and 1.3.2022, made the first repetition and first winter ascent of “Padre Pio Prega Per Noi + Echelle Ver l...

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, which has as its background the Poland of the 80s ...

Spongebob, Hello Kitty and Iceman in Pakistan by Yannick Graziani

Published on 19/01/2022 Hey hey!  It’s on a windy autumn day in Chamonix that I finally began to write this story. Like often in life, you don’t know when the right moment is until it’s upon you.  ...

Ice Chasers - video series

Ice is an almost magical element, with its short lived and delicate nature. It has marked the life of many climbers who have been able to find in ice their vision and their path. This video series ...

La cura 9A - Marcello Bombardi and Massimo Bal

Published on 20/12/2021   Last October Marcello Bombardi has freed “La Cura”, 9a in Ollomont (Italy), bolted by Massimo Bal. After 7 days on the route and many falls at the last move he managed to ...

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 which he has opened, alone or in a rope team, some ...

POLAR SHADOWS by Vincent Colliard

Published on 22/10/2021Polar Shadows by Vincent Colliard: 63 days, 1100 km unsupported, temperatures till -40, sledges of 290 kg, 2 warm hearts. These are the numbers of the polar expedition made b...

Digital Crack - Now and then

Published on 17/09/2021   Climbing through history. On 26th June 2021 Alessandro Zeni and Enzo Oddo repeated Digital Crack, a unique line of 8a, located on a 50 m red granite monolith in the middle...

VERDON The Show must go on

Published on 16/08/2021VERDON The show must go on: discover the evolution of a climbing mecca.

Socially Useless

Published on 30/07/2021 What can we define socially useful? Climbers may see it differently! Beauty, adventure, fear, mind games … to each their own! Watch our new video “Socialmente Inutile” - Soc...

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 Coyoacán in Mexico City, and rescuers enter in a hou...

GREENSPIT - The psychologist in the crack

Published on 25/6/2021Greenspit is a 12-meter long horizontal crack that crosses a large 45° roof, in the Orco Valley, in north-western Italy.Watch the story of Marco Sappa, from a career in human ...

How climbing has changed my life by Angelika Rainer

Published on 18/06/2021 "I didn't have many friends at school, and at the secondary school I was also bullied.Climbing has given me freedom, both physical and mental”. Our athlete Angelika Rainer c...

Lapsus - Marcello Bombardi

Published on 21/5/2021 “Lapsus has represented for me an adventure and a challenge against my difficulties and my limits. It was super thrilling and liberating to make those last three moves and go...

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 them journeys, life experiences.This time the destina...

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 the Lake District - with a backpack, which we wou...

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 the end of march, one month ago now. Surely because...

From 0 to 0 - Monte Etna episode, a non-stop adventure never seen before! by Andrea Lanfri

Published on 23/04/2021Every time I plan a new adventure, the ambition is always the same: to overcome my limits, those that seem insurmountable. I want to prove to myself that I can do it, I want ...

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 drawing in hand: it is that of a ten-pointed crampon,...