A recall from climbing brand Petzl is as much advice as a warning: No matter which harness you have, make sure you know how to use it properly. Petzl has created a redesign for 27,500 climbing ...

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 ...

When it comes to a new hobby, I’m generally wary about investing money into any new gear. In this town, it’s relatively easy to drop hundreds of dollars on gear that you’ll never actually use in the ...

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 ...

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 ...