Mountain climbing is all about contradictions: delicate precision and aggressive action, overheating pitches and long, cold belays, eons old and ethereal, evaporating ice.... Black Diamond.
Black Diamond was born in 1989 to make the first employee owned company and to this day prides itself on being an innovator of top quality climbing, backcountry skiing, and ice climbing gear. Winter climbers have more routes, techniques, information and equipment available to them now than at any time in history, and with the advent of leashless tools we may look back on the current period as the “Golden Age” of mixed climbing.
As designers and manufacturers of paradigm-setting gear, black diamond also works within a rather contradictory framework: light but strong, durable but not overbuilt, specialized but versatile. Like climbing itself, the rewards received get from taking on these challenges are found in achieving the necessary balance between these seemingly opposing design criteria. In climbing as well as product development having an open mind, attention to detail and creativity are the keys to success.
Whether your goal is a sheet of monolithic ice stuck to the side of a cliff, a tantalizing dagger at the lip of a cave or a serpentine line up an alpine face, the time to get after it is now. BentGear & Black Diamond are here to bring you climbing & backpacking equipment that will help you embrace your own contradiction. | 
