Born in the Alps

GIPFEL was forged in the unforgiving silence of the Swiss high alpine — where temperature swings are violent, terrain is merciless, and only the essential survives. Founded in 2007 by a small collective of mountain guides and material engineers, we set out to build performance gear that respects the mountain as much as the athlete who climbs it.

Our philosophy is deceptively simple: remove everything that does not serve the summit. No excess, no ornamentation, no compromise. Every seam, every layer, every fastening system is the result of obsessive iteration — tested at altitude, refined in the workshop, and validated in conditions that most gear never sees.

Craftsmanship at GIPFEL is a living discipline. Our atelier in the Bernese Oberland employs master cutters who have spent decades understanding how the human body moves under load, against wind, in cold that makes fingers useless. The result is a collection that feels inevitable — as if it could not have been made any other way.