Document Type : Snow & Ice Climbing

Hope (Alpiniste) Ice Axe

Hope wooden shafted, hand forged steel ice axe with straight pick. Hole at top of shaft. Metal, four-sided ferrule ending in point. Leather head cover.

Felix Ralling (Fulpmes) Ice Axe

Beautiful wooden-shafted ice axe. Metal head with five serrations on pick. Metal, four-sided ferrule.

Cassin metal ice hammer. Drooped, curved pick with back-facing teeth. Hammer head. Both adjustable. Shaft covered with orange rubberised material, three holes in shaft. Triangular hole in ferrule, four back-facing teeth on either side.

Peg Hammer (de-pegger) by Stubai

Metal piton hammer with round hole through head. Black rubberized handle on shaft. Metal extension to base of shaft with small round hole.

Chouinard Zero Ice Axe (metal version)

Ice axe with metal head and blue metal shaft. Head has slightly drooped, serrated pick with small round hole in pick, larger one above shaft, and key-hole shaped hole in adze. Bottom of shaft has rubberized cover. Ferrule narrows to point in four stages. Small hole at top of ferrule.

Charlet Moser Ice Axe & Hammer (Pulsars?)

Charlet Moser drooped-pick ice axe and hammer. Replaceable/adjustable pick & adze/hammer. Holes in middle of shafts & heads. 3 x holes in picks. Notched ferrules with central holes.

Yeti Gaiters (early version)

Red & blue Gore-tex gaiter with front zip. Nylon top with cord adjustment and metal stud fastening. Rubber rand glued onto boot.

MSR (Mountain Safety Research) Thunderbird Ice Axe

MSR metal-shafted ice-axe with pointed ferrule, scalloped adze and widened end of pick. Two holes in head. Split shaft with screw to fix attachment in place. Orange paint with blue tape on one side of shaft.

Time Pieces

4 x Clog Pitons (Kingpins) 1 x Salewa Ice Screw 1 x Salewa (Drive-In) Ice Piton 1 x Stubai Snaplink (2000kg) Karabiner 1 x Stubai Screwgate (2500kg) Karabiner 1 x Troll No 4 Hexagon 1 x Troll No 6 Hexagon 1 x Troll No 8 Hexagon with lightening holes 1 x Clog Cog No 2 1 x 11/9mm Salewa Sticht Plate

Simond (Wooden-Shafted) Ice Axe (early version)

Wooden-shafted ice-axe with ‘beak-shaped’ pick, serrated for a section along the lower edge, adze, & long, square-shaped ferrule ending in point.