Grivel Stories

Expeditions

EVEREST - Then & Now

Published 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...

Adventure

THE NOIRE - Climbing in the Shadow of Mont Blanc

Published on 10/8/2023Light and dark, adventure and exploration, friendship and cold … On February 12th and 13th 2023 François Cazzanelli, Emrik Fa...

Adventure

The 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...

History

The story of Toni Gobbi: from citizen to mountain guide - by Oliviero Gobbi

Published 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...

Adventure

THE 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 (Denal...

Experience

The art of surviving by Marek Raganowicz

Published on 2022/07/19 Between April 17th and May 21st, Marek Raganowicz opened MikroKozmik Variations (VII, A4 +, M5) in the Polar Sun Arm,Baffin...

Adventure

MATTERHORN Big Wall

Published on 2022/06/13 3 friends and mountaineers, 2 routes linked together according to a visionary project, 1 iconic mountain in the heart of th...

Expeditions

WIELICKI - The Lord of winter

Published on 2022/05/25 “I believe that mine was an entire generation who really wanted to leave their name written in the history of mountaineerin...

Expeditions

Superleggeri 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 sav...

Climbing

La Norte, triumph and tragedy on Cerro Torre by Tomas Roy Aguilò

Published on 2022/04/07First attempts on the North Face of Cerro Torre 17 years climbing in El Chalten… I can say that my path was progressive and ...

Mountaineering

Denis Trento - My life as a ski mountaineer

Published on 2022/03/25 “Skis are definitely the tools that allow me to be more in contact, more in symbiosis with the environment, with nature, w...

#News

STOP WAR

Published on 2022.03.10 - We have now decided to temporarily stop deliveries to Russia. We believe that the sum of many small actions can have a gr...