Since 2006, the Petzl Foundation has been serving our mountain and vertical access communities that have enabled the company to grow and prosper worldwide. Our priorities are accident prevention, conservation and scientific research.

The Petzl Foundation around the world

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FRANCE - ACTIVTIES REPORT 2017 - 06.2018

Find all the projects supported by the Petzl Foundation for the year 2017



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FRANCE - The 4^th SUSTAINABLE SUMMITS CONFERENCE

This conference is, first and foremost, an opportunity to get together, a desire to work together for our high mountains, one of the last areas on the planet where human presence is merely transient (...)

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FRANCE - ACCIDENTOLOGY IN THE COULOIR DU GOÛTER

From 1990 to 2017, French mountain police force registers show 347 rescue operations in the Goûter couloir, on the normal route on Mont Blanc, which resulted in 102 deaths (...)

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FRANCE - CALL FOR PROJECTS BY PETZL EMPLOYEES

In 2017, the Petzl Foundation proposed to the company’s employees to support their projects related to mountain or vertical world. For this first call (...)

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UNITED STATES - HOW CALIFORNIA’S GIANT SEQUOIA RESPONDS TO DRAUGHT

California recently experienced an unprecedented 5-year drought (2012-2016) that led to declining growth rates and increasing mortality levels in many trees and forests (...)

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