Fergus, Ontario · Est. 2001

Built rugged.
Built Canadian.

We've spent 20+ years building gear for rope access techs, search and rescue teams, and the Canadian military. Now we're making climbing gear the same way. By hand, in small batches, in our workshop in Fergus, Ontario.

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UIAA Certified · CE Marked
Tested to international safety standards
20+ Years Manufacturing
Rescue, rope access & military since 2001
Small Batch · In-House QC
Every piece inspected before it ships
02 / Our Story

Industrial
Roots

20 +
Years Manufacturing
1 CA
Workshop — Fergus, ON

Eyolf started in 2001 when Igor and his wife Martine set up a small workshop in Fergus, Ontario to build safety equipment for people whose lives depend on their gear. Wind turbine technicians, rope access crews on the CN Tower, search and rescue teams, the Canadian military, and adventure parks where a single harness gets used hundreds of thousands of times over it's lifespan and has to take the abuse.

The Aino harness started as a side project over 14 years ago, to design a recreational climbing harness with the knowledge and standards from the professional side. It's been tested by climbers putting up hard sport routes in the Canadian Rockies for the past four years. Now we think it's ready for everyone.

The recreational line isn't a new direction for us. It's the same team, the same workshop, and the same approach. We cut webbing from rolls, machine our own buckles on our CNC, and sew every stitch in-house. We just happen to love climbing too.

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Aino · Sport & Alpine Harness

Aino Sport and Alpine Harness — sewn in Fergus, Ontario
Sport Trad Alpine Via Ferrata Multi-pitch
Colourway
Black

Fourteen years of side-project tinkering, built on twenty years of making harnesses that keep people alive at work. The Aino is a sit harness for sport cragging, multi-pitch days, and alpine routes. Load-bearing paths are built to the same standard as our rope access harnesses. Buckles machined in-house on our CNC. Webbing cut and sewn from raw materials in our Fergus workshop. Field-tested in the Rockies for four years.

Specifications
  • Made in Canada — sewn and assembled in Fergus, Ontario
  • Buckles machined in-house — tool-free adjustment
  • Batches are pull-tested and every unit is visually inspected before shipping
UIAA Certified CE Marked EN 12277 ISO 9001:2015
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Built where
it's designed.

Our shop sits on the outskirts of Fergus. The people who design our gear are the same people cutting, sewing, and assembling it. We source specialized components globally where needed, but every harness, sling, and rope bag is constructed from raw materials right here. Small batches mean we can stand behind every piece — because we saw every piece get made.

Cut in-house
Sewn in-house
Assembled in-house
20+
Years in operation
1
Workshop — Fergus, ON
14+
Years field testing the Aino
CA
Made in Canada
05 / Equipment

Part of the Kit.

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Sjorr Belay Device
Hardware
Sport · Trad · Alpine
Sjorr Belay Device

Tube-style belay and rappel device for single and half-rope systems. Light enough for an alpine rack.

  • 83g — aluminium body
  • Fits 8mm to 11mm ropes
Available through retailers
Karvi QuickDraw Set — 6 pack
Hardware + Textiles
Sport · Trad
Karvi QuickDraw Set — 6 Pack

Straight and bent-gate carabiners on a 12cm polyester dogbone. Keylock noses, rubber keeper on the rope end.

  • 24kN closed gate · CE tested
  • Dogbone sewn in Canada
Available through retailers
Ragnar 20mm Polyester Sling
Textiles
Trad · Alpine · Anchor
Ragnar 20mm Sling

Polyester anchor sling, sewn in Canada. Colour-coded by length so you can grab the right one without reading a label.

  • 23kN MBS · CE certified
  • Sewn in Canada
Available through retailers
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Keep in
touch.

We send occasional updates — events we're attending, new gear coming out of the workshop, and which shops carry our stuff. Nothing else.