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Mountaineering Club and School MCS AlexClimb
In this section, I want to share with you my experience of use various equipment for mountaineering, iceclimbing and rockclimbing. Based on the results of professional tests, an independent quality assessment is given.
Review of the Cassin X-Light ice ax
Review of CAMP Evo trekking poles
CAMP Backcountry Carbon 2.0 Poles Review
Review of CASSIN Alpininst Pro crampons
Ferrino Pilar II tent review
Modern technologies have long turned the market for mountaineering and tourism equipment into a high-tech independent industry.
Climbing equipment require careful and professional testing
Competition in the market for technologies and solutions for mountaineering, iceclimbing and rockclimbing has brought some companies to the forefront, and the struggle for possession of this market continues. Manufacturers compete with each other to introduce new technologies, each inventing dozens of completely new and redesigned solutions.
We do testing climbing equipment in rockclimbing training environments around the world
Progress in the mountaineering equipment industry significantly increases the safety and comfort of mountain sports and makes our travels more successful and enjoyable.
However, understanding the market for mountaineering equipment is sometimes difficult even for a specialist - there are too many new technologies, beautiful at first glance, but useless in practice equipment.
We do testing cutting-edge mountaineering technology during professional iceclimbing training - worldwide
Without objective testing, use in real conditions of difficult mountain hikes and ascents, it is impossible to identify both the positive aspects of new equipment and its defects, which are sometimes revealed only after serious and professional testing.
The importance of obtaining objective information on the characteristics of equipment cannot be overestimated, because the life and safety of the
climbers can depend on this quality in the mountains.
Testing equipment during mountaineering is the best opportunity to correctly evaluate particular equipment
On this page I bring to your attention various reviews of equipment that was used in our very real, sometimes extremely difficult conditions of professional mountaineering routes.
Good luck to you in the mountains and enjoy using your equipment!
Author of text and photographs - Alex Trubachev
Your guide to mountaineering, ice and rockclimbing
MCS EDIT 2024
Our Principles
AlexClimb Rule #1 - Safety First
From the very beginning of our activity, here nearly 16 years, the first Principle of work of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb is the Safety Priority. On the basis of this Principle all process of training is based, all programs and rounds are developed and carried out only within this main principle. We consider that at professional approach to development of programs, at personal discipline and correctly put motivation - occupations by mountaineering and rock-climbing are COMPLETELY safe. And from the return - all troubles and accidents in our sport come from nonprofessionalism, from ignorance or neglect by elementary standards of safety, from irrational motivation, from revaluation of own forces and opportunities. All these prerequisites we COMPLETELY EXCLUDE in our work - ours Rock-climbing, Ice climbing and Mountaineering are based on one Principle - the Safety Priority. In rock-climbing, mountaineering and ice climbing, the Priority of Safety of MCS AlexClimb-is your personal security and comfort irrespective of, than we are engaged - we train muscles and we work technology of the movement in the sports hall and on the rock climbing wall, we make the way through snowstorm to top or we relax on golden sand of the Caribbean beach after hot day of trainings on rocks. The Safety priority - the main credo of School of mountaineering and rock-climbing of MCS AlexClimb.
AlexClimb Rule #2 - Leave No Trace
Closely interacting with Nature, working with the active programs in mountains, woods, lakes and rivers, we perfectly understand the importance of carefull and respectfull bahavior towards the Nature, for its resources. From the very beginning of our outdoor-activity we adopted rules of Leave No Trace technique - the standard of behavior of the person accepted in all the civilized world in relation to environment and especially - to the wild nature. After all on the relation of people to the nature near which they exist, itself can draw dalekoidushchy conclusions on the relation of these people to... Where and as we didn't travel - we don't reserve any garbage, we try to reduce whenever possible our influence on environment to a minimum. We clear earlier zagryazyonny tourist parking of the left garbage, we take out and we take out to utilization places that to us other people left there. We consider that only thus, at personal individual consciousness of each citizen, each tourist, climber or autotraveller, we will be able to keep the nature surrounding us in its state, natural, suitable for life, - in it pledge of the healthy future for ourselves and our children.
