↑ 152: Werk Fulpmes

• Made in Austria. [ca. 1900].
• 980x235 mm.
• Weight: 970 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 30x24 mm.
• Fixed Head.
• Straight adze with a curved edge and no arch.
• Adze: 60(l)x44(w)x0(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a pointed tip and with 7 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 115(l)x21(h)x9(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 77(l)x12(w)x12(t) mm.
• Glide ring and stop are missing. Stop was mounted on sace of shaft rather than the edge.
• This is a long ice axe whose length is consistent with the general practice of the fisrt half of the 1900s. The adze is small, thick, and flat.

Peter Aschenbrenner (1902-1998) was an Austrian Guide who participated in the 1934 and led the 1953 expedition to Nanga Parbat. He developed this ice axe design in the early 1930s.

The Aschenbrenner quickly became the ice axe chosen by many military personnel. Many were distributed to the German mountain divisions during War World II. After the war, they became more and more popular and were made with a range of shaft lengths to fit a variety of situations.

The Aschenbrenner ice axe was the most successful wood-shafted ice axe of all time. They were widely used until wood shafts went out of fashion.

↑ 206: Werkgen Fulpmes Aschenbrenner

• Made in Austria. [1930s].
• 780x285 mm.
• Weight: 1065 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 35x24 mm. (Grip: 32x23 mm.)
• Fixed Head.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and no arch.
• Adze: 85(l)x62(w)x0(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a pointed tip and with 6 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 150(l)x21(h)x9(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 47(l)x13(w)x13(t) mm.
• Glide ring with canvas strap.
• The inscription is struck with EXTRA GARANTIE in French.
• Werkgen Fulpmes logo matches those used in the 1930s.

The Fran Senn axe is a copy of Ralling's Akademiker Pickel. It was named after Franz Xaverius Senn (1831–1884), an Austrian priest and mountaineer. Senn was among the first to promote alpinism and foster the early development of mountaineering in Tyrol. He was a founding member of the Austrian and German alpine associations.

↑ 359: Werkgen Fulpmes Franz Senn

• Made in Austria. [1930s].
• 830x290 mm.
• Weight: 1100 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 35x26 mm. (Grip: 32x25 mm.)
• Fixed Head.
• Straight adze with a straight edge and no arch.
• Adze: 80(l)x61(w)x0(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a pointed tip and with 6 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 145(l)x21(h)x8(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 52(l)x11(w)x11(t) mm.
• The tapered shaft that provides strength where it's needed most and gives the axe a solid swing when cutting steps.
• The Fran Senn axe is a copy of Ralling's Akademiker Pickel.