Goulotte Gabarrou-Albinoni 1974-2024 - 50th anniversary
The 50th anniversary of a great classic goulotte in the Mont Blanc range, in the words of one of the protagonists, Patrick Gabarrou. English, Ital...
Read moreThe 50th anniversary of a great classic goulotte in the Mont Blanc range, in the words of one of the protagonists, Patrick Gabarrou. English, Ital...
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 F...
Read morePublished on 2022/08/12 Toni Gobbi was a mountaineer, a mountain guide, a ski instructor and an entrepreneur. Born in Pavia in 1914 and raised in V...
Read morePublished on 2022.05.06 "They climbed the slope with crampons, without cutting steps - as desirable as they might seem - because they wanted to sav...
Read morePublished on 07/12/2021For about fifteen years, from 1950 to 1965, Walter Bonatti was certainly the best mountaineer in the world.15 years during w...
Read morePublished on 7/9/2021 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 Coyo...
Read morePublished on 7/05/2021On a Saturday morning in August 1802, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge exits from Greta Hall - the great house in Keswick in ...
Read morePublished 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...
Read moreIce climbing gear has lived a long and fascinating evolution. Discover it in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio Marlier. To each...
Read morePublished 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 ...
Read moreThis 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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