Grivel Stories

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...

From 0 to 0 - Monte Etna episode, a non-stop adventure never seen before! by Andrea Lanfri

Published on 23/04/2021Every time I plan a new adventure, the ambition is always the same: to overcome my limits, those that seem insurmountable. I want to prove to myself that I can do it, I want ...

The engineer, the crampon and the beast by Marina Morpurgo

Published 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 drawing in hand: it is that of a ten-pointed crampon,...

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE A MAN BY DAMIEN TOMASI

Published on 09/02/2021 Almost 20 years ago now, when I was buying my first ice axes for ice climbing in the local sports shop in Nice, I came across a huge Grivel poster. In the photo, a climber ...

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...

FIRST 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 ...

ICE CLIMBING IN EL CHALTEN, PATAGONIA, BY TOMAS ROY AGUILÒ

Published on 05/01/2021 This very particular year, with the pandemic that surprised everyone, I was left in quarantine at the best time and place to enjoy one of the best winters that I experienced...

It looks shit, but was actually ok - movie

Ice climbing gear has lived a long and fascinating evolution. Discover it in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio Marlier. To each  their own!Sit back and Enjoy! #GrivelToEachThei...

You had to be brave - movie

We are proud to present "You had to be brave", a movie about the evolution of ice climbing in the words of two protagonists: Stevie Haston and Ezio Marlier. Sit back and Enjoy! #GrivelToEachTheirOwn

Arrigetch 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...

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...

From Zero to Capanna Margherita - a new record (14h 18m 21s) by Nico Valsesia

Published on 04/09/20 In the previous weeks I had been on Monte Rosa with the mountain bike champion Marzio Deho and with Mattia Torraco, my dear friend. During the day we had climbed from Alagna Z...

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...