Scarpa Rock Climbing Shop

For SCARPA®, building the best mountain footwear in the world is as much an art as it is a science. Not unlike a great chef preparing a culinary masterpiece, the craftspeople at SCARPA use a footwear design like an intricate recipe. Based on this recipe, the best quality materials for the boot design and intended use are chosen and tested. Once the appropriate leathers, midsoles, soles and hardware have been matched to the design, it is time to put it all together into a finished product. These are all very important steps but the true connoisseur knows that the art is in the making.

Let's cook!

Good designs and materials are all essential in the making of a fine pair of mountain boots but in the end, the crux of the boot making process is the construction. Each pair of SCARPA mountain boots is hand made in the SCARPA factory by craftspeople that inherited their boot-building skills from their parents and grandparents. These people take extreme pride in the boots they build and the SCARPA name. There are very few automated processes in the SCARPA factory. Cutting and sewing is still only done by a few highly skilled craftspeople on individual machines. All soles and midsoles are applied by hand and all welt stitching is done one boot at a time. The last form stays in the boot for a minimum of 24 hours to ensure that the boot retains the precise shape of the last after it is removed. To ensure quality and consistency, each boot is individually inspected during each step of the construction process. If you want the best, you can forget about the rest.

SCARPA — when it counts!

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