In 1862, Kaspar Tanner founded a rope-making business in the small town of Dintikon in Switzerland. While he initially produced mainly for the agricultural sector, the focus increasingly shifted to mountain sports from the 1950s onwards. And with that also on the subject of safety: Mammut launches the first nylon glacier rope on the market, develops the first Barryvox with the Swiss Army in 1969 to search for avalanche victims and is one of the first brands to use waterproof GORE-TEX functional material. In the 1990s, the first generation of the iconic Eiger Extreme collection for mountaineering was created. Since then, the small Swiss rope manufacturer has become a global brand for mountain sports. But the brand’s spirit of innovation is still just as great as it was at the start. In fact, even greater than ever.