↑ 418: Royal Robbins/Alpélit

• Made in France [1976].
• 805x275 mm.
• Weight: 815 g.
• Aluminum Shaft with Rubber Grip.
• Shaft: 33x21 mm. (Grip: 36x25 mm.)
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a curved edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 75(l)x67(w)x3(arch) mm.
• Curved alpine pick with a positive-clearance chisel tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 140(l)x25(h)x7(t) mm.
• Round fluted spike.
• Spike: 78(l)x17(d) mm.
• An aluminum shaft is stronger than wood, but it conducts heat well, chilling the hand. The head has a step on top to allow the user to hammer the pick into snow or ice.
• The conical spike and long tapered ferrule makes this an easy axe to drive into snow, but forces one to grip the axe higher on the handle.
• The step in the head provides a striking surface for driving the pick into alpine ice.
• Royal Robbins distributed Alpélit through its first company, Mountain Paraphernalia in Modesto, California.
• These were the first aluminum handled ice axes in the USA. They were made by the firm Leborgne.
• This version was introduced by Alpélit in 1973. It was the first version distributed by Royal Robbins.
• This particular axe has 1976 Alpélit logos on the shaft and pick.

↑ 032: Royal Robbins/Alpélit

• Made in France [ca. 1977].
• 600x275 mm.
• Weight: 710 g.
• Aluminum Shaft with Rubber Grip.
• Shaft: 33x21 mm. (Grip: 36x25 mm.)
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with a curved edge and a moderate arch.
• Adze: 75(l)x67(w)x3(arch) mm.
• Curved alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with 5 ventral teeth near the tip and 5 more near the shaft.
• Pick: 140(l)x25(h)x7(t) mm.
• Round fluted spike.
• Spike: 76(l)x16(d) mm.
• An aluminum shaft is stronger than wood, but it conducts heat well, chilling the hand. The head has a step on top to allow the user to hammer the pick into snow or ice.
• The conical spike and long tapered ferrule makes this an easy axe to drive into snow, but forces one to grip the axe higher on the handle.
• The step in the head provides a striking surface for driving the pick into alpine ice.
• Royal Robbins distributed Alpélit through its first company, Mountain Paraphernalia in Modesto, California.
• These were the first aluminum handled ice axes in the USA. They were made by the firm Leborgne.
• This version was introduced by Alpélit in 1976. It was the second version distributed by Royal Robbins.