Expeditions
EVEREST - Then & Now
Publié le 24/10/2023 L'attrait intemporel de la plus haute montagne du monde, dans les mots de Rinaldo Carrel (le premier Italien à ...
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History
L'histoire de Toni Gobbi : de citoyen à guide de haute montagne - par Oliviero Gobbi
Publié le 12/08/2022 Toni Gobbi a été un alpiniste, un guide de haute montagne, un moniteur de ski et un entrepreneur. N&eacut...
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Expeditions
Superleggeri Grivel: les crampons qui ont poussé l'alpinisme au dessus de 8000m -de Gian Luca Gasca
Publié le 06.05.2022 "Ils ont grimpé la pente avec des crampons, sans couper les marches - aussi souhaitables qu'elles puissent para&...
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History
Escalade dans l'histoire: la Route Bonatti sur la face nord du Cervin par Damien Tomasi
Publié le 07/12/2021Pendant une quinzaine d’années, de 1950 à 1965, Walter Bonatti était sûrement le meille...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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History
The history of carabiners
What do you know on the evolution of carabiners? Their history will help you choose the right carabiner for your needs.
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