↑ 487: Ever New Attack

• Made in Japan [ca. 1964].
• 850x295 mm.
• Weight: 900 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Fixed head.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and a strong arch.
• Adze: 75(l)x69(w)x6(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip.
• Pick: 165(l)x26(h)x8(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 69(l)x17(w)x10(t) mm.
• Standard cupped adze and rugged pick.
• Made from carbon steel.

↑ 227: Ever New Gletscher

• Made in Japan [1967].
• 775x295 mm.
• Weight: 920 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 35x22 mm.
• Fixed head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 65(l)x68(w)x5(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a pointed tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 160(l)x28(h)x8(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 68(l)x17(w)x10(t) mm.
• Rugged axe with a heavy–duty adze and pick.
• Hole in adze for inserting an axe with a round spike to form a ladder.
• Large triangular spike with a heavy–duty ferrule.

↑ 458: Ever New Lhotse

• Made in Japan [1967].
• 795x280 mm.
• Weight: 870 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 34x21 mm.
• Fixed head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 65(l)x64(w)x4(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with three dorsal and six ventral teeth.
• Pick: 145(l)x28(h)x8(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 68(l)x17(w)x10(t) mm.
• Large thick adze and rugged pick.
• Adding teeth to the upper side of the pick in addition to those below improves the bite in hard snow and soft alpine ice, but makes the pick harder to remove from hard ice.
• Head made from SNC No. 2 nickel–chromium steel (equivalent to AISI 205 stainless).

↑ 279: Ever New Military

• Made in Japan [1960s].
• 915x300 mm.
• Weight: 930 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 36x22 mm. (Grip: 36x24 mm.)
• Fixed head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a curved edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 85(l)x58(w)x4(arch) mm.
• Straight fluted alpine pick with a rounded tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 160(l)x30(h)x5(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 74(l)x16(w)x10(t) mm.
• Glide ring with adjustable natural fiber wrist strap, teardrop-shaped brass stop with two screws.
• This version was made for the Japanese Mountain Troops in the 1960s.

↑ 523: Ever New Pionner [sic]

• Made in Japan [ca. 1965].
• 33x21 mm.
• Weight: 795 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Fixed head.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 75(l)x60(w)x4(arch) mm.
• Straight alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with 10 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 160(l)x23(h)x8(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 68(l)x18(w)x9(t) mm.
• Cupped adze and an interesting pick with a sharpened toothed ventral extension near the tip.
• Made from SCM #3 Chrome Molybdenum steel.
• The Pioneer line was introduced around 1962. It was Ever New's first named ice axe.
• Some early Pioneer axes, such as this one, were stamped with "Pioneer" misspelled as "Pionner."
• The Pioneer's head shape had dramatic changes over time.

↑ 515: Ever New New Pioneer

• Made in Japan [1970s].
• 755x265 mm.
• Weight: 755 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Fixed head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and a strong arch.
• Adze: 60(l)x65(w)x7(arch) mm.
• Curved alpine pick with a negative-clearance chisel tip and with 4 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 40(l)x26(h)x7(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 60(l)x15(w)x10(t) mm.
• Cupped adze and rugged pick.

↑ 373: Ever New Zeus

• Made in Japan [1967].
• 750x290 mm.
• Weight: 905 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 34x23 mm.
• Fixed head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a straight edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 70(l)x66(w)x5(arch) mm.
• Straight fluted alpine pick with a rounded tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 155(l)x29(h)x9(t) mm.
• Round fluted spike.
• Spike: 58(l)x9(d) mm.
• Web leash.
• Large thick adze and rugged pick.
• Hexagonal hole in adze is for inserting an axe spike with a hexagonal base to form a ladder.
  This is an improved design over the one on my Ever New Gletscher.
• Head made from SNCM No. 5 steel (similar to 4340).