The Grivel Air Tech Evo is the new version of the famous Air Tech axe.
Building on the classic design points of the original, but with refinements utilising the latest technology, the Air Tech Evo is the ideal axe for classic and technical Alpinism and ice falls.
The head, which is hot forged from a single piece of steel, has become an established Alpine classic. The new shaft’s gentle curve just below the head gives greater clearance and makes anchoring easier on any sort of terrain, whilst the lower straight part of the shaft will penetrate into snow with little effort.
The most advanced axe technology, all in under 500 grams.
Ideal for classical and technical Alpinism, ice falls and goulottes.
Grivel: Forging a Place in History
From a blacksmith’s forge at the foot of the highest mountain in the Alps, Grivel have become world leaders in the manufacture of crampons and ice axes.
The oldest company in existence making equipment for Alpinism and climbing, Grivel began forging agricultural tools in a small, metal-working factory in Courmayeur, near Mount Blanc, in 1810. Nearly 100 years later Henry Grivel commercialised the first crampon prototype, using re-forged railway ties which provided the best-quality steel around.
Today, their Cramp-o-Matic, Air Tech and New Classic crampons, along with Munro, Brenva and Matrix ice axes, are used by climbers and Alpinists everywhere, helping to forge their reputation as masters of their mountain craft.