Grivel Twin Gate Carabiners

All these advantages sound great but to me they sounded even better when you put them in the ‘fun’ environment of Scottish winter climbing. So after three months of Scottish winter how did the carabiners fare? For winter work the two different models performed very differently. The pear shaped solid twin gate Mega K6G was a bit of a disappointment. The solid twin gate was hard to operate with gloves on, even in fairly ‘ideal’ winter conditions, the tiny tabs to facilitate purchase on the side of the gate were just not sufficient and it was soon swapped to the ‘summer only’ rack (with bare hands there was not so much of an issue).