Grivel Stories
RSS feedMushin - Being Yasushi Yamanoi
Published on 14/12/2023 “Mushin" is a zen mental state achieved when a person's mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego during combat or everyday life, so the person is totally free to ac...
Read morePublished on 24/10/2023 The timeless appeal of the world's highest mountain in the words of Rinaldo Carrel (first Italian to summit, in 1973) and François Cazzanelli (who climbed it in 2018), with ...
Read moreThe Crystal Ship - First ascent of Pumari Chhish East (6850)
Published on 28/02/2023 3 friends and un unclimbed summit at 6850m in Karakoram. A long wait due to bad weather and then an unexpected good weather window that allowed them to fulfill their dream.T...
Read moreTHE SLOVAK - Reflections on Light & Fast Alpinism
Published on 2022/07/27 Steve House and Alan Rousseau: reflections on light & fast Alpinism, from their experiences on the Slovak Direct (Denali) one of the most legendary routes in the Alaska ...
Read morePublished on 2022/05/25 “I believe that mine was an entire generation who really wanted to leave their name written in the history of mountaineering. It was also a historical paradox that it was pr...
Read moreSuperleggeri Grivel: the crampons that pushed mountaineering above 8000m by Gian Luca Gasca
Published on 2022.05.06 "They climbed the slope with crampons, without cutting steps - as desirable as they might seem - because they wanted to save energy". Thus the Alpine Journal on the exploits...
Read moreSpongebob, Hello Kitty and Iceman in Pakistan by Yannick Graziani
Published on 2022/19/01 Hey hey! It’s on a windy autumn day in Chamonix that I finally began to write this story. Like often in life, you don’t know when the right moment is until it’s upon you. ...
Read morePolar shadows by Vincent Colliard
Polar Shadows by Vincent Colliard: 63 days, 1100 km unsupported, temperatures till -40, sledges of 290 kg, 2 warm hearts. These are the numbers of the polar expedition made by Vincent Colliard and ...
Read moreExpeditions at the time of COVID by Giampaolo Corona
Published on 19/05/2021This is my fifteenth mountaineering expedition between the Himalayas, Karakoram and Hindu Kush, but if I prefer to call them journeys, life experiences.This time the destinat...
Read moreFIRST 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 this virgin summit the Kyungya Ri 2 which culminates ...
Read moreArrigetch Peaks: An Artic 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.com The Arrigetch Peaks, meaning ‘fingers of an outs...
Read moreTAGHIA 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...
Read moreAttempt to Pangpoche by Emrik Favre
“It is not always the summit that gives you happiness, often the journey and the efforts we undertake to get where we can go are enough” Emrik Favre tells us about the difficulties encountered duri...
Read moreManaslu 8163 m "An Himalayan expedition out of the box", by Francois Cazzanelli
Manaslu at high speed: the last Himalayan venture of our friend Francois Cazzanelli.
Read moreShivling 2017 by Vittorio Messini
Published on 24/06/2019 It was again at the Erna, the gas station at the Dobbiaco intersection, when we met for a quick coffee before climbing. In addition to the usual "How are you?", "Is it goin...
Read moreRevelation glacier expedition 2019 by Janez Svoljšak
Slovenian mountaineers Janez Svoljšak has completed a series of climbs in remote mountains of Alaska on routes that no human ever set foot on before, conquering three virgin peaks in the process.
Read moreAROUND NANGA PARBAT ON SKIS BY YANNICK GRAZIANI
The essence of mountaineering is to understand that we are where we need to be, and where we were in this immense bare ground, we fully enjoyed this satisfaction, two black dots lost in the immensity.
Read moreTwo Denalis in one week By François Cazzanelli
A double excellent result that repays the Grivel athete of the efforts made during the meticulous preparation throughout the winter.
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