Dernières News

From May 7-10, the Petzl Team is heading to Val Masino, Italy for the 6th annual Melloblocco international climbing festival. Each year over 2000 climbers, beginners and pros alike, come to check out the world-famous boulders set in a beautiful alpine valley.

May 15 to 17 : Slack line festival in Czech Republic

If you are between the ages of 13 and 20 years old, interested in helping preserve the environment and want to have a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, the PANGAEA project is for you!

Applications for the next session of the Y.E.P. (Young Explorers Program) are now being accepted. The expedition takes place in October on an Indonesian island.
 

Ueli Steck und Simon Anthamatten awarded with the "Piolets d'Or" 2009 together with two more first ascents of Kalanka and Kamet!

Limitations on use of AA/LR6 and AAA/LR03 Lithium batteries with headlamps.

This information does not apply to the e+Lite which was designed to work with CR2032 Lithium batteries.
Lithium batteries are lighter and give longer burn times at low temperature than traditional Alkaline batteries.
Due to recent advances in the performance characteristics of Lithium batteries (especially their higher output during discharge), they can cause the lamp to overheat and possibly damage the LEDs.

This year's 10mila was held in south Sweden, somewhat special
because otherwise it has always been around Stockholm. But Skåne
offered a great event with good organisation, nice terrain and
spring-feeling during the day (in the night the temperature fell down
drastically...)

So far this year climbing seems to be going well. I managed to redpoint a new 9a/9a+. I always thought it was 9a+, but it went fast, so I wondered, is it really so hard???

Not really, but does anything in our sport really make sense? We look for the hardest way up the wall, then try and find the easiest way up it! Link-ups are fun for training, though often make two OK routes into one really good one.

Wet or What!

Who owns a route? No one owns the rock. Does he who prepares a line have any rite to be the first to climb it, or is it open to all?