Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
For the past three years, the engineers, developers, and athletes of BD have coalesced under the cover of winter to iterate and innovate a new revolutionary ice climbing tool.
Through that in-depth testing process, the team came to a head. An aluminum head, to be exact. Shifting the paradigm from steel to aluminum in the heads of our ice tools allowed us to design a component exchange system of cast-tungsten head-weights, forged picks and hammer configurations that all seamlessly integrate into the head of the Hydra. This Integrated Component Exchange (I.C.E.) system allows climbers to optimize the Hydra for any winter climbing pursuit. From pure water ice, mixed climbing, dry-tooling, all the way to the peaks of the Himalaya, the Hydra is a many-headed beast that can send it all.
For the past three years, the engineers, developers, and athletes of BD have coalesced under the cover of winter to iterate and innovate a new revolutionary ice climbing tool.
Through that in-depth testing process, the team came to a head. An aluminum head, to be exact. Shifting the paradigm from steel to aluminum in the heads of our ice tools allowed us to design a component exchange system of cast-tungsten head-weights, forged picks and hammer configurations that all seamlessly integrate into the head of the Hydra. This Integrated Component Exchange (I.C.E.) system allows climbers to optimize the Hydra for any winter climbing pursuit. From pure water ice, mixed climbing, dry-tooling, all the way to the peaks of the Himalaya, the Hydra is a many-headed beast that can send it all.
