Collection: Black Diamond

Black Diamond are committed to designing and engineering the most innovative mountain equipment in the world.

At Black Diamond, it's all about mountain sports. They share the same experiences that you do on rock, ice, and snow and these experiences push us to make the best equipment and apparel possible for our worldwide community.

Their passion for innovation transforms the way they pursue mountain sports—a heritage that began with a backyard anvil and hammer and continues today, hitting milestones along the way with revolutionary equipment such as the world’s first wire gate carabiner, or our cornerstone Camalots.

At their core, we are a company of users. That’s who their are. Because of this, the creation of Black Diamond is a process that will never end. Today, you can find them at the base of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they are immersed in our commitment to designing and engineering the most innovative mountain equipment in the world.

Black Diamond Heritage

You can’t tell the history of climbing and mountain sports without telling the history of Black Diamond.

Black Diamond was born from Chouinard Equipment and was a natural continuation of the passion and ethos that Yvon Chouinard and his friends started in 1965. Peter Metcalf, Maria Cranor and the employees of Chouinard Equipment took over in 1989, changed the name to Black Diamond and moved to Salt Lake City, to be at the base of the Wasatch mountains.