Belay devices
Product 2018
Woman, Man
Often on a belay in a long route , even with skill and methodology you can quickly find yourself with a mass of carabiners, various hardware, ropes and knots, especially when climbing in a trio. One of the solutions was up until now to multiply the anchorage, a rigging plate with three or four holes, that you clipped onto with two carabiners to the first belay point and that allowed you to spread the load to each element. Grivel’s brilliant and simple idea (– often the best – and the toughest to find) was to fuse a rigging plate with three holes to a unique ultra-safe twin gate carabiner. Result: you have a practically perfect system.
Lightweight at 95g, it weighs half the weight of two carabiners and a rigging plate. The other advantage: as you clip it directly onto a belay point it is flat against the rock and therefore stays in its axle. It keeps everything aligned in the right direction.
It seems simple but this Grivel is a technical masterpiece in its manufacture of carabiners to be designed 100% reliable. The stresses forced upon the device are multiple and the ergonomics of the piece are specifically designed to spread these stresses for safety reasons. The only slight downfall to the design is that the carabiner is a little small. With cold hands (or fat fingers), gloves or fatigue, handling it becomes less fluid.
A beautiful object, superb value for money-weight-safety-quality-ratio, if you compare it to two carabiners and a rigging plate. It is undeniably more interesting in terms of comfort and safety in its simplicity and usage. A definite must to have in your pack for long routes.
We used this equipment over a long period of time
These are our thoughts after intensive use:
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