Products
Black Diamond Equipment designs and manufactures products for climbing, skiing and mountain sports. Climbing products include locking and non-locking carabiners, quickdraws, harnesses, active and passive climbing protection, belay devices, helmets, ice tools and piolets, crampons, ice protection, bouldering pads and big wall equipment. Black Diamond Equipment also produces skis, ski boots, bindings, poles, gloves, ski packs, avalanche safety gear and climbing skins. The company’s mountain products include tents and shelters, lighting, trekking poles and backpacks.
Over the years, Black Diamond has acquired and integrated several gear companies into its line, including Bibler tents (1997) Ascension climbing skins (1999), and Franklin climbing products (1998).
Notable Black Diamond products include:
- Camalot (1987): a spring-loaded camming device with increased strength and expansion range
- Black Prophet ice tool (1992): an ergonomically shaped ice tool
- FlickLock® (1994): An external adjustment clamp for ski and trekking poles
- HotWire (1995): World’s first wire gate climbing carabiner
- Express ice screws (1997): Ice screws with speed-drive knob and quick-biting tooth geometry
- AvaLung (1999): an avalanche safety device that helps maintain air supply during avalanche burial
- Cobra ice tool (1999): a compound-curved ice tool that uses carbon fiber in the shaft
- Moonlight and Spaceshot headlamps (2001): Headlamps using LEDs and powerful Xenon bulbs
- Camalot C3 (2006): a flexible camming unit with interlocking cams and a narrow head width
- O1 binding (2006): a freeride telemark binding with a low-resistance touring mode
- Freeride ski boots (2008): a line of AT and telemark ski boots that bridge freeride constriction with backcountry touring accessibility.
- Magnetron carabiners (2012): auto-locking carabiners that use magnets in the gate and a steel insert in the carabiner’s nose for added security
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