Grivel Stories

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, with the mountains. I define myself as a ski mounta...

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 great impact.

First Winter Ascent of ‘Padre Pio Prega Per Noi and Echelle Ver le Ciel’ - Matterhorn by François Cazzanelli and team

Published on 2022.03.04Between the 27th of February and the 1st of March, our athletes François Cazzanelli and Emrik Favre, together with Francesco Ratti, successfully made the first repetition and...

Story of a stolen book: how Bonatti changed my life by Marek Raganowicz

Published on 2022/08/02 The story dedicated to Walter Bonatti and his mountaineering and literary legacy starts from an event, duly fictionalized, which has as its background the Poland of the 80s ...

Spongebob, 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.  ...

Ice Chasers - video series

Ice is an almost magical element, with its short lived and delicate nature. It has marked the life of many climbers who have been able to find in ice their vision and their path. This video series ...

La Cura 9A - Marcello Bombardi and Massimo Bal

Published on 2021/12/20 Last October Marcello Bombardi has freed “La Cura”, 9a in Ollomont (Italy), bolted by Massimo Bal. After 7 days on the route and many falls at the last move he managed to cl...

Climbing in history: Bonatti Route on the North Face of Matterhorn by Damien Tomasi

Published on 07/12/2021For about fifteen years, from 1950 to 1965, Walter Bonatti was certainly the best mountaineer in the world.15 years during which he has opened, alone or in a rope team, some ...

Polar 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 ...

Digital Crack Now and Then

Published on 2021/09/17   Climbing through history. On 26th June 2021 Alessandro Zeni and Enzo Oddo repeated Digital Crack, a unique line of 8a, located on a 50 m red granite monolith in the middle...

VERDON The show must go on

VERDON The show must go on: discover the evolution of a climbing mecca.

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...

The revolutionary, the killer and the ice axe by Marina Morpurgo

Published 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 Coyoacán in Mexico City, and rescuers enter in a house...

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...

Expeditions 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...

Coleridge and the first sport climb in history by Marina Morpurgo

Published 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 the Lake District - with a backpack, which we woul...

North Face of Eiger? Twice in a week! By Yannick Graziani

Published on 30/4/2021 Hello my dedicated climbing friends!I don’t really know how I came to climb the north face of the Eiger twice in a week at the end of march, one month ago now. Surely because...