PETZL ERGO ICE TOOLS

It is indeed perfect for dry tooling, but I’ve found it works fantastic for steep ice as well. The cure allows me to keep my fingers from getting bashed on bulges of ice and makes hooking much easier. The best thing about it is the comfortable angle in which your hand is placed. It is so much easier to maintain a relaxed grip on your ice tools with the grip much more near a horizontal angle. To put it in terms of rock climbing, it’s like every hold is a big jug, versus, most other ice tools that put your hand in a much more vertical plane which is much more difficult to keep arm pump at bay.