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Felix Ralling
Ice Axes & Ice Hammers

Felix Ralling was a blacksmith in Fulpmes, Tyrol, Austria. He began forging ice axes and crampons near the beginning of the 20th century. Early axes are stamped FELIX RALLING or F. RALLING. After World War II, they operated as a company and changed their inscription to F. RALLING HAMMERWERK and later to just RALLING. The Ralling company closed in the late 1970s.

Ice Axes

Akademiker Pickel Meister

In 1925 Ralling and the Academic Section of Vienna began working together to design the "Academiker Pikel." This was available in 1926. After WWII, Ralling marketed these with "Meister" added to the name.


This axe's original owner added fiberglass to improve the strength of the wood shaft. I removed the fiberglass to restore the axe.


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Himalaya Kuno Ranier

Kuno Rainer was an Austrian Mountain Guide and amember of the first expedition to climb Nanga Parbat in the Himalaya.

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SIXT

SIXT appears to have been a retailler in Insbruck Austria for whom this axe was made.

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