Figfour Dry Tools

By Kenny Stocker

Climbing with the Figfours may be as close as you can get to mixed climbing or dry tooling without actually having picks.

Mountain Journal Entries

7 Top Tips for Winter Climbing

Winter climbing can be a strange beast: hugely rewarding but equally hard work at the same time. Getting your systems right is the answer to moving...
January 27, 2021

Chasing Ice

Ramon's an Alpkiteer and old friend of Alpkit. He took the campervan on a trip this Christmas, and told us all about his trip. Christmas is a time ...
February 03, 2023

Ama Dablam | An Alpkit Long Read

Deciding to climb a peak in the Himalayas for the first time wasn’t quite a 2020 New Year’s resolution, but it was about as close as I normally co...
January 13, 2022

Everest the Cruel Way - Joe Tasker

What you are about to read is an exclusive extract from the book 'Everest the Cruel Way' by Victor Saunders. To see more books we love and books t...
March 09, 2021

'The Shining Mountain' by Peter Boardman

What you are about to read is an exclusive extract from the book 'The Shining Mountain' by Peter Boardman. To see more books we love and books tha...
February 09, 2021

Structured chaos - The unusual life of a climber by Victor Saunders

What you are about to read is an exclusive extract from the book 'Structured Chaos' by Victor Saunders. To see more books we love and books that c...
February 02, 2021

The 'Unrepeatable' | Ice Climbing in the Serra da Estrela

Story written by our Alpkiteers Daniela Teixeira and Paulo Roxo Unlike last year, this year we do have winter in Serra da Estrela. The East Face...
January 26, 2021

10 Things To Replace A Chamonix Climbing Season: Anna Wells In Lockdown

Like so many other people around the world, the Covid-19 outbreak has had a huge impact on our lives. After a brilliant winter season in Chamonix, ...
April 09, 2020

Himalayan Adventures: Part 3

“Now we need to climb without backpacks!” I said, looking up. My feet were teetering by the tips of my crampons. The ice was bulletproof- alpinist...
December 19, 2018

Himalayan Adventures: Shan-Ri - Part 2

If you've not read part 1 yet, catch up here. Base camp at 4400m Two days resting at base camp (4400m) and: “Here we go!” Since we left a b...
December 13, 2018

Himalayan Adventures: Shan-Ri - Part 1

Himalayas 2018 In the last 10 years our Himalayan adventures have been based on mountains off the beaten path, normally virgin peaks or unexplored ...
December 06, 2018

Salbit Westgrat - Alpine Training at its Best

Salbischjen, a very pointy 2900m granite mountain situated near Andermatt in the Swiss Alps. I’m not sure when I first heard about the climbing t...
October 19, 2018

A Peruvian Adventure

'Hi Alpkit, My self and two of my friends have just returned from a successful trip from Peru where we managed to summit the mountain of Alpamayo....
July 27, 2017

The Ascent of Nanda Devi

Posted for Vertebrate Publishing - to mark the re-release of H.W. Tilman titles H. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his tim...
December 07, 2016

Red Bull Drytooling Event at the White Cliffs

This month, the Red Bull White Cliffs event took place on the Isle of Wight. It involved scaling 90metre highoverhanging chalk cliffs using axes an...
October 22, 2015

Steel Koan M13+

The big adventure in our trip didn't materialise. Helmcken Falls was as black as the devil's soul, and no ice to be climbed or challenge to scare o...
February 27, 2015

Ice World Cup

Indoor dry tooling is really quite a strange sport when you think about it! Any time I've attempted to explain it to a friend, I have stumbled ov...
February 13, 2014
Denali - part-3

Denali - part-3

After 6-7 days at camp 14200 (I lost count), a camp move due to avalanche risk, a trip to the Edge of the World (fantastic views) and attempted o...
September 25, 2012
Cold Summits- Denali Exped 2012

Cold Summits- Denali Exped 2012

So what happens when climbers with varying skills and ages get together on Denali for 4 weeks? Team work and support will undoubtedly come to the f...
April 16, 2012
The "Goods" bootcamp

The "Goods" bootcamp

Winter has finally arrived, time to dust off the ice axes. I have to admit I’ve been putting it off as much as I could, the summer has been way too...
December 29, 2011
Ice 2010 in Pictures

Ice 2010 in Pictures

We travelled out to the ICE climbing festival in France with mountain biker Paul Errington so that he could train for the Arrowhead mountain bike...
January 21, 2010
Climbing has a look at indoor training tools for ice climbing

Climbing has a look at indoor training tools for ice climbing

The Figfour has a thicker handle... The large rubber loop grabbed a wider range of holds.
December 01, 2011
Winter workouts

Winter workouts

I've been using the Fig Fours again, this time trying to climb the main comp wall at the Foundry. I'm still adjusting to what they can do but I rea...
January 19, 2010

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