All Climbing articles – Page 36
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London Mountain Film Festival to take place during 2021 London Mountain Week
The London Mountain Film Festival (LMFF) is broadening its horizons and reaching out to retailers, brands, sporting clubs, venues, community projects and any other organization that wants to host their own event as part of the city-wide London Mountain Week April 16-25, 2021. While LMFF will list and promote the ...
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New Iberian distributor for Berghaus
Dicaltex Internacional has taken over the distribution of Berghaus for Spain and Portugal, starting with the servicing of the present autumn/winter collection and the sale of the spring/summer 2021 collection. Viper was the previous Spanish distributor of the British outdoor brand, but the contract ended in June.
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ArticleIspo Munich will be hybrid
Messe München has announced that its next Ispo Munich show will be a hybrid event – on-site and digital. It will be smaller and more digital in physical terms, but it will be intended to reach a more international audience through the internet. We understand that the new format will ...
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News briefsThe North Face introduces the Explorer Team
The North Face (TNF) has announced the launch of a new team that will involve everyone around the world who see themselves as explorers or adventurers – from scriptwriters and photographers to trail runners and powder enthusiasts. TNF took the inspiration for its “Explorer Team” from the Covid-19 period and ...
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ArticleRainer becomes Oberalp’s CSO, Busa is Salewa’s new GM
Justifying the introduction of a new sales structure with a shift to a “channel-driven approach” rather than a geographical basis under the management of Christoph Engl, the Oberalp Group has announced that Stefan Rainer will become its chief sales officer on Oct. 1. Rainer, who has been the general manager ...
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Preventive inspection call for Skylotec’s SAM 2.0 climbing harness
The German climbing material specialist Skylotec has discovered a missing structural seam on a Skylotec SAM 2.0 harness during a routine inspection. After a thorough inspection of all harness inventories, no other harnesses with this defect pattern could be identified, but the manufacturer has published a precautionary inspection notice. Since ...
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ArticleUK sport and physical activity sectors demand Covid-19 sports recovery fund
The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) reports that leaders of more than a hundred sports and exercise institutions in the UK have sent a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to reserve funds for the rehabilitation of the sports and activity sector - or risk fueling lack of exercise ...
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ArticleABK is closing down
ABK Company, owner of the ABK climbing brand, is winding up its business, which has run out of capital and was placed in liquidation on Aug. 4 by France’s commercial court. According to Hugo Allard, the company’s chief executive and one of its founders, it was the combination of Covid-19 ...
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ArticleNatureTrack Film Festival goes virtual in October
The third annual NatureTrack Film Festival (NTFF), usually taking place in Los Olivos, Calfornia, is going virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dozens of documentaries and short films from 21 countries will be available online for a global audience Oct. 9-18. Individual tickets for single program blocks are sold for ...
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ArticleClarus expects Black Diamond and Sierra to grow
In a presentation at this year’s virtual edition of the Gateway Conference in San Francisco, an annual invite-only conference that brings together the most compelling companies with the nation’s top investors and analysts, Clarus called the Covid-19 pandemic a “potential blessing” for its Black Diamond and Sierra brands, as new ...
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Fritschi takes over distribution of Marmot in Switzerland
U.S. outdoor specialist Marmot is starting a new distribution partnership for Switzerland with Fritschi Swiss Bindings. From Oct. 1, Fritschi will be responsible for all sales activities of the Californian brand founded in 1974, from key account management and new customer acquisition to training and education. The liaison offers many ...
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Will the first virtual Thin Air Gear Show be canceled?
We’ve previously reported on the Thin Air Gear Show, a new virtual trade show concept that promised to fill the hole left after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all physical shows in the USA. Gearjunkie.com has now published an article that makes us wonder whether the Thin Air ...
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News briefsLa Sportiva and Società Alpinisti Tridentini collaborate in Italy’s Trentino region
La Sportiva signed an agreement with the Società Alpinisti Tridentini (SAT), the Trento branch of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI), with the aim of preserving more than 5,000 km of mountain trails and the active diffusion of the mountaineering culture within the borders of the northern Italian region of Trentino, ...
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Asolo will have new distributors for Switzerland, U.K. and Ireland
Asolo has appointed Contact & Production as its new distributor for Switzerland, starting with the spring/summer 2021 collection. Meanwhile, Asolo and Proagencies agreed to terminate their four-year deal for the U.K. and Ireland, effective June 30. Starting July 1, distribution for the U.K. and Ireland has been taken over by ...
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Management changes at Mammut
The chief creative officer of Mammut, Adrian Margelist, is leaving the Swiss mountain sports and outdoor brand after more than three years. Mammut’s chief executive, Oliver Pabst, created a small sensation in early 2017 with the appointment of Margelist as creative head, as Margelist was known primarily as a fashion ...
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Scarpa’s Heinz Mariacher wins the Paul Press award
Scarpa’s manager Heinz Mariacher has been awarded the Paul Preuss Award 2020, which honors outstanding climbers. The prize is named after Paul Preuss, the father of free climbing. The honor was handed out by Reinhold Messner, the legendary Italian mountaineer and explorer, and Georg Bachler, the honorary chairman of the ...
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News briefsClymb™ Abu Dhabi breaks two Guinness records
Clymb™ Abu Dhabi, a sports and leisure attraction on Yas Island, which opened on Nov. 29, 2019, received two Guinness World Records™ titles for the world’s largest indoor skydiving flight chamber with a diameter of 10 metres and a height of 54.6 metres and for the world’s highest artificial indoor ...
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News briefsRab is Lowe Alpine’s new online home
Since Aug. 20, Lowe Alpine products are available on the Rab website, uniting the digital appearances of the two outdoor brands, both owned by the British company Equip Outdoor Technologies. “The decision to move Lowe Alpine to the Rab website is one that has been in the works for long ...
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News briefsHalls & Walls 2020 canceled
The Halls & Walls climbing gym convention, organized by the German Alpine Association (Deutscher Alpenverein / DAV) and scheduled for Nov. 6-7, had to be canceled due to the corona pandemic and the associated official requirements and orders. Since 2017, the climbing sports industry has been meeting for two days ...
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Super Natural signs equipment deal with Austrian mountaineering school
As reported by German trade magazine SAZ Sport, Super Natural is starting a cooperation with the mountaineering school Bergschule Kleinwalsertal. Super Natural is a brand selling first layers and apparel made of merino wool and technical fabrics and was launched in Europe in 2012 by Shanghai Challenge Textile, a Chinese ...
