Grivel Stories

History

Coleridge and the first sport climb in history by Marina Morpurgo

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

Ice Chasers - Videoreihe

Eis ist ein fast magisches Element mit seiner kurzlebigen und zarten Natur. Es hat das Leben vieler Kletterer geprägt, die ihre Vision und ihr...

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 - KLETTERN IN MOROCCO

Veröffentlicht am 05/02/21 “Das marokkanische Atlasgebirge gab mir verschiedene emotionsreiche Lebensgeschichten, mit ihren jungfrä...

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...

History

It looks shit, but it was actually ok - movie

Ice climbing gear has lived a long and fascinating evolution. Discover it in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio Marlier. To each...

Ice climbing

You had to be brave - movie

We are proud to present "You had to be brave", a movie about the evolution of ice climbing in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio...

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....