Cordée — expedition gear for roped teams, Chamonix since 1938
Cordée · Chamonix · Since 1938
Higher,together.
A cordée is a roped team: three climbers, one rope, one mountain. We have made the gear for them since 1938, in a workshop under the Aiguille du Midi.
1,035 m · Chamonix
Pack for thewhole mountain.
The Aiguille 45 carries a summit day or a week of huts. One roll-top, two axe loops, a frame you can take out and sleep on.
- Volume
- 45 L
- Weight
- 1.24 kg
- From
- €290
2,840 m · Mer de Glace
One rope,three lives.
On the glacier you walk roped, eight metres apart, so a crevasse takes a step and not a person. Our 9.1 mm dry rope is woven in Annecy and tested to twelve falls.
- Diameter
- 9.1 mm
- Weight
- 52 g/m
- UIAA falls
- 12
3,620 m · Arête des Cosmiques
Steel whereit matters.
A forged chromoly pick and a shaft of aluminium you can drive into hard snow. Twelve-point crampons that fit any boot with a welt, set in a minute with gloves on.
- Axe
- 480 g
- Crampons
- 12 points
- Pick
- Forged CrMo
4,260 m · High camp
A warm nightat minus twenty.
The Refuge 2 pitches in a gale in four minutes and weighs less than a litre of water does in your head at this height. Inside, a suit of 800-fill goose down.
- Tent
- 2.1 kg
- Down
- 800 fill
- Comfort
- −30 °C
4,810 m · Summit
Sunrise isthe reward.
The Sommet shell: three layers, 380 grams, and a hood that fits over a helmet. Choose the colour you want to be seen in from the valley.
Your kit
Pack itbefore you go.
Everything you need for a two-day ascent with a night at high camp. Tick what you already own; we will weigh the rest.
The route · 12.4 km · 3,775 m up
Chamonix · Zermatt · Courmayeur
Rope in.
Climb it with one of our guides. We lend the kit; you bring the legs.