Grivel Stories

Socially Useless

What can we define socially useful? Climbers may see it differently! Beauty, adventure, fear, mind games … to each their own! Watch our new video “Socialmente Inutile” - Socially Useless - the stor...

GREENSPIT - The psychologist in the crack

Greenspit is a 12-meter long horizontal crack that crosses a large 45° roof, in the Orco Valley, in north-western Italy.Watch the story of Marco Sappa, from a career in human resources as a psychol...

How climbing has changed my life by Angelika Rainer

Published on 18/06/2021I admit it sounds like a cliché, but as a child I was extremely shy, I had no confidence in myself and it was climbing that changed me profoundly.Thanks to it, my character e...

Lapsus - Marcello Bombardi

“Lapsus has represented for me an adventure and a challenge against my difficulties and my limits. It was super thrilling and liberating to make those last three moves and go from an empty mind foc...

MOROCKS

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 and their wild technical climbs, since 2009, I alw...

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. First repeaters: Bongiorno Nicolò, Cazzanelli Fra...

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 competitions, proudly wearing the colors of the national...

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 already, everything was there to build a myth... The ...

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 another era and in a lifestyle that has nothing to do...

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 place in vogue, we want something different and in ...

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 were held at the gym of the Generale Cantore Castl...

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 images of the crags of this beautiful country that is ...

Time to show up and be seen by Nikki Smith

Two years ago, the climbing photographer known as Nathan Smith saw no way out, after struggling for years with gender-identity issues in the male-dominated outdoor industry. Then—slowly, bravely—Ni...

Bhagirathi IV by Luca Schiera

Luca Schiera tells us how fate and a landslide can change the outcome of an expedition. This is the story of his first ascent of the Bhagirathi IV West wall, Indian Himalayas.

Competitions, results and what they taught me by Marcello Bombardi

The important thing is not to win but to overcome oneself, "win oneself", overcome difficulties in order to express the best possible performance. If I think back to my greatest sport results, I ca...

“The third life” by Thomas Bubendorfer

Thomas Bubendorfer tells us about the dark moments that followed his life-threatening accident on March 1, 2017, and how he managed to come out of it and open a new mixed climb on Grossglockner (37...

The art of dreaming by Alessandro Zeni

"You could compare slab climbing to realism, in which every stroke, every single color is carefully chosen. I learned the beauty of slab climbing, a slow advance, an inner quest that required finge...

Peuterey Integral by François Cazzanelli

Published on 13/09/2019 A great dream that comes true. I had been dreaming of climbing this immense ridge for several years, without bivouac, going light and fast. I didn't know if I could do it bu...

The great trilogy of Val Masino by Luca Schiera

The great Masino Trilogy in 34 hours non-stop: the latest adventure of our athlete Luca Schiera.