Bradley Alpinist High Altitude Climbing Gear

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Why We Show Up

Bradley Alpinist LLC is a climbing/mountaineering equipment company offering a variety of select climbing equipment for Alpinists, Andinistas, Mountaineers, Rock Climbers, Alpine Climbers, and Ice Climbers. Together with supporting organizations that protect our mountain environments, and climbing access, we offer resources to our customers that will enhance their climbing endeavors, such as information on why you should Hire a Mountain Guide, where to find certified climbing guides, how to choose a certified climbing guide, and sample gear lists for several types of climbing trips. We are a climbing equipment company that strives to propel the mountain guide profession, and help introduce our customers to certified rock guides, ski guides, ski mountaineering guides, heli ski guides, and alpine guides who offer their services in the mountains all over the world. Bradley Alpinist is a proud corporate sponsor of the Hire a Mountain Guide organization

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We endeavor to serve climbing/mountain guides all over the world, and wish to solicit their feedback on all the gear we offer, design, and manufacture. We feel that mountain guides see on the average of six times the number of trips the average mountaineer will see in one year, including the staff at Bradley Alpinist. Bradley Alpinist has dedicated space on our website to educate, and promote climbers on the benefits of hiring a mountain guide, and to provide a resource for our customers to source and locate a climbing guide in their particular region of the world, or for their particular route tick list.

Look for our ads in Alpinist Magazine, Rock & Ice Magazine, Climbing Magazine, Couloir Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and Outside Magazine. We intend to also sponsor events such as Telluride Mountain Film, Valdez Ice Festival, Chicks with Picks, and Ouray Ice Festival.

As in business and climbing, there has to be some balance between fun and focus. The focus of Bradley Alpinist is to serve the mountaineering enthusiasts and mountain guide communities by offering hard to find equipment for mountain climbing expeditions and alpine style accents, as well as providing constant innovation on existing ideas in areas from hydration systems(water bladders and water bottles ), to cooking kits suited to work with any kind of camping stove on the market. Our products, both manufactured by Bradley Alpinist or other fine purveyors, include climbing hardware, climbing apparel, sleeping bags, tents, packs, mountaineering books, climbing accessories, and a line of especially fine climber’s jewelry. At the end of the day, we do this because its fun, it’s affords a good amount of time off to climb and travel to places where our gear loves to play.

Climbing and life in camp at higher altitude is different, and sometimes punishing. Your standard mess kit, or ensemble of pots and pans, and hydrations system, such as a camel back, platapus, or nalgene water bottle, although excellent and useful products and effective in the right environments, may fail you at higher altitudes.

As a business built by climbers, we still rely on trusted climbing hardware, and software products by the companies we all trust, like Black Diamond, Petzl, Charlet Moser, DMM, Mountain Hardware, Marmot, MSR, and we certainly cannot and will not compete with these companies to serve the ice climbing, rock climbing, and alpine climbing community. We feel we complement these leading innovators with our line, and serve a niche with the alpinists who may participate in expeditions and climbing in Alaska, Himalaya, New Zealand, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Argentina, and Patagonia.

We are a lean operation, but responsive and available for feedback and dialogue about how to improve our product selection, the gear we manufacture, and our service to our customers. Although our manufacturing and wholesale divisions are supplemented with a web-based retail arm, we purpose to serve the climbing and mountaineering communities differently than, and complementary to Recreational Equipment Incorporated (REI), Mountain Equipment Coop, Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS), Mountain Gear, Patagonia, Black Diamond, Petzl, Marmot, North Face, Cloudveil, and Bent Gates, of the brick and mortar, online and printed catalog world.

Brand name ice axes, mountain axes, crampons, mountaineering boots, climbing harnesses, carabineers, ice screws, climbing protection, pulleys, and ascenders may be offered occasionally on our website, but will likely be left up to our trusted local climbing shops, and larger suppliers or other on-line companies. These equipment items are readily available by an array of suppliers.