Black Diamond

Here at Black Diamond, it’s all about mountain sports. We 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.

Our passion for innovation transforms the way we pursue mountain sports. Our heritage 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.

Black Diamond was born from Chouinard Equipment. It was a natural continuation of the passion and ethos that Yvon Chouinard and his friends started in 1965. Peter Metcalf and the employees of Chouinard Equipment took over in 1989. They changed the name to Black Diamond and moved to Salt Lake City, to be at the base of the Wasatch mountains. Black Diamond can be bold in our assertion that we have created and continue to create mountain sports.