Documenting the evolving tools of our vertical world
This catalog showcases many items the modern mountaineer would recognize. There are pitons, carabiners, rappel rings, and hammers that look a bit like the types we still use. Sporthaus Jungborn seems to have been well stocked with...
Selected pages from the 1968 Matterhorn Equipment catalog.
Early Climbing Era / Hardware / Piton
by Curator · Published March 16, 2015 · Last modified June 3, 2015
This type of piton carrier was very handy back when a climbers rack of protection consisted of a selection of heavy and oddly shaped pitons. It was designed to be hung around the climbers neck...
First released in 1982 this chock concept was designed to be simple, clean, and functional. The idea was to remove everything possible and leave only the wire and jamming surface. P-nuts met with limited...
