THE EXCITEMENT OF PLANNING the next climb is intoxicating. Like a bad kung fu movie, you never know if you’re ready so you just have to go find out. Late nights with photographs, plotting the next day’s epic beyond the boundaries of certainty, filing tools and sipping scotch—how quickly these long nights turn into early mornings with java and headlamps.

We create ice gear the same way we ready for an ice climb. Not all-knowing, but willing to find out. This is how we do it—by using in-house design, engineering expertise and feedback from relentless field and lab tests, fueled by faith in our ability to figure it out and make better ice tools.