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Nims and Grivel

#News

Nims and Grivel

Published on 25.02.2022 - We are proud to announce our new partnership with Nimsdai “Nims” Purja and his company Elite Exped.

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, ...

Expeditions

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 kn...

Ice climbing

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 i...

Climbing

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 ro...

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...

Adventure

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. Th...

Climbing

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, lo...

Climbing

VERDON The Show must go on

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

Climbing

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 ow...

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...

Climbing

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...

Climbing

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 p...