Documenting the evolving tools of our vertical world
Au Vieux Campeur is a French sporting equipment supplier which has offered high quality equipment for over seventy-six years. This catalog offers a great snapshot of mainly european equipment available in 1980 and includes some interesting...
Second in our series of early catalog recreations, these are the items offered by Gerry in 1960. Notice the interesting shape of the top two pitons. Both the vertical style and the horizontal have...
This entry in our archives has its origins in a conversation with climber and photographer Ed Webster. I opined that I could probably recreate most, if not all, of the equipment selection used on many notable ascents. We...
This selection of soft iron pitons and vintage equipment comes to us from the Allgau and Austrian Alps. The owner used them from the 1930s through the 1950s when they were finally retired. The...
These Clog Bong pitons are just barely under 3 inches in size. They are early 1970s or perhaps late 1960s examples of Clog piton design.
A collection of miscellaneous Eiger equipment from the Vertical Archaeology archives. The pitons are standard European soft iron types with the “Eiger” logo stamped on one side of the anvil.
