Brand Stories

As an adventure photographer, you don’t have the luxury of a studio where you can keep all your gear in one place and move the subject to you. You are constantly traveling to locations and your gear has to come with you. The LowePro PhotoSport III is an adventure photographer's camera bag. It was designed on the crux of adventure to be a climbing photography specialist.

Cypher wants to invite you into the mountains. We want to boost you over the barriers that try to prevent you from experiencing climbing. The right equipment can introduce you to the sport and will grow with you as your exploration evolves. 

Italian hardware manufacturer Grivel details a history about how the technology used in making the blade of an ice axe. The first mountaineers used a single long pole with a sharp point on the end and now feature a much shorter handle with a forged blade made in a process similar to the legendary Japanese katana. We also look at how different blades are made for different uses such as ice, mixed, and dry climbing.

In 1933, three brothers created the world's first liquid filled compass. This greatly improved explorers ability to navigate. The new company, called SILVA, would go on to create a headlamp. This would lay the groundwork for nearly a century of orienteering tools used to navigate in places where other tools like GPS would fail.

A Gibbon is an ape. That's where the slackline company got their name. Gibbon Slacklines made slacklining available to the masses when they took an activity that was performed by a few experts and made it available to everyone. They try to embody the values they see in their namesake and teach intelligence, balance, and mobility.