Grivel Stories

Climbing

Socially Useless

Climbing

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 “...

History

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 Coyo...

Climbing

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 Sa...

Climbing

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 ...

Climbing

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 th...

Expeditions

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...

History

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 ...

Mountaineering

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 t...

Adventure

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...

History

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 dra...

Ice climbing

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 acr...

Adventure

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 ...

Adventure

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 thi...