Petzl's roots lie in the desire of its founders to serve one passion, exploration. Since its beginnings in caving, in the early 1930’s Fernand Petzl discovered caving at the age of seventeen, the company’s mission has remained constant: to offer practical solutions that allow people to progress. Today the Petzl pioneering spirit, passion for exploration and ethic have not changed. More than forty years later, Petzl continues to invent products and provide solutions that allow sports enthusiasts and professionals to access some of the most inaccessible places, both day and night.