Grivel Stories

Adventure

Arrigetch Peaks: An Arctic climbing expedition in Alaska

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

FLATANGER CLIMBING TRIP by Marcello Bombardi

Published on 05/10/20 My summer as a professional athlete has always been around Italy, Europe or the world pulling holds for training and competi...

Adventure

From Zero to Capanna Margherita - a new record (14h 18m 21s) by Nico Valsesia

Pubblicato il 04/09/20 Nelle settimane precedente ero stato sul Monte Rosa con il campione di mountain bike Marzio Deho e con Mattia Torraco, mio c...

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...

Climbing

TAGHIA CLIMBING EXPEDITION - GOING INTO THE MOROCCAN MIDDLE ATLAS by Silvia Loreggian

Published on 30/06/2020 Taghia is a village of 600 inhabitants lost in the Moroccan Middle Atlas. Staying in Taghia means immersing yourself in ano...

Climbing

Delicatessen (8b max) - Climbing in Corsica by Riccardo Scarian

Published on 26/06/2020 We have left the winter 2018/2019 and we feel the desire for rock and sea, an ideal combination. We do not want the usual p...

Climbing

The dawn of sport climbing in Aosta Valley. Memories of a protagonist by Guido Azzalea

Published on 16/06/2020 It was the year 1970, I had attended a course of introduction to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Aosta. The lessons ...

Climbing

Climbing in Greece - Video

Published on 12/06/2020 “There are little corners that we would like to keep just for ourselves. But today we are happy to share with you some imag...

Skiing

LA POIRE - FIRST DESCENT BY EDMOND JOYEUSAZ

Published on 05/06/2020 It wasn't meant to be this year, then Covid forced me to change my plans. I should have finished my descent project in the ...

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...

History

Steel Points in the Grivel forge - 1956 documentary

This exceptional video from 1956 shows how our ice axes and crampons were produced in those years. Many things have changed since then, but our pas...