Black Diamond crampons, ice tools, ice pro and accessories allow you to get the job done on any terrain.

Black Diamond offers a lightweight line of crampons with ultramodern features and excellent technical performance.

Focus in vital areas has resulted in the revamping of primary key points with serrated edges and tweaked positioning, for better penetration and hold.

Curved, semi-rigid crampon designs provide a sensitive feel on mixed terrain while new, dual-density ABS plates combat snowballing exceptionally well and are not slippery when climbing mixed terrain.

History

Black Diamond's roots stem to 1957, the year an eighteen year old named Yvon Chouinard bought a hammer and anvil and started pounding out hand-forged pitons.

Chouinard Equipment, located in Ventura, California was born.

In 1968 Chouinard introduced the world's first rigid crampon, accelerating the trend that had begun from step-chopping to the faster, more efficient technique of front-pointing.

A little over thirty years after Yvon Chouinard pounded out his first piton, Chouinard Equipment filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, seeking protection from several liability suits which threatened to sink the company.

On December 1, 1989 the former employees of Chouinard Equipment signed the papers to make the first employee-owned company in the climbing industry official. Black Diamond was born.

Since 1957, Black Diamond's innovative climbing gear designs have set the standards in numerous areas.