The French company Petzl has issued a request for inspection which concerns its Newton harness. As a precautionary measure, Petzl is asking all of its customers to inspect the safety stitching on the ...

Climbing equipment company Petzl introduces the Sitta climbing harness, a fully featured technical piece made with Wireframe technology. Although extremely lightweight and compact, this product is ...

AN urgent recall alert has been issued for 812 harnesses sold in Ireland after a major fall risk was identified. The recall impacts three models of harnesses from the brand Petzl. There are 582 of the ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Climbing shoes may get all the air time, but unless you’re in the ranks of soloists like Peter Croft, Alex Honnold and Marc-André Leclerc, you’re going to need one of the best climbing harnesses. This ...

Earlier this month, a tipster alerted a UK-based consumer blog that used Petzl Aspir (C24) climbing harnesses were being resold on eBay after potentially fatal modifications. The harnesses had been ...

A climbing harness is one of the few pieces of gear that is absolutely essential when attempting to scale anything that stretches beyond bouldering height. Maybe you don’t feel that way if you’re Alex ...

So you’ve been rocking rental gear in the gym, raiding partners’ climbing bags, or mortifying your friends by haphazardly free soloing every rock you see on hikes? Whatever the case might be, you’re ...