Grivel Stories

History

The revolutionary, the killer and the ice axe by Marina Morpurgo

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...

Climbing

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 an...

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...

History

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...

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

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...

History

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 dra...

Ice climbing

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE A MAN BY DAMIEN TOMASI

Published on 09/02/2021 Almost 20 years ago now, when I was buying my first ice axes for ice climbing in the local sports shop in Nice, I came acro...

Adventure

MOROCKS - CLIMBING IN MOROCCO

Published on 05/02/21 “The Moroccan Atlas mountains gave me several life time stories full of emotions, with their virgin ways, their high summits ...

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

Ice Climbing in El Chalten, Patagonia, by Tomas Roy Aguilò

Published on 05/01/2021 This very particular year, with the pandemic that surprised everyone, I was left in quarantine at the best time and place t...