Technical alpine crampons Petzl SARKEN LL UNIVERSEL

The climber’s secret weapon for technical terrain. With vertical, toothed front points, SARKEN crampons provide superior penetration on hard ice, while also providing solid purchase in snow. 

LEVERLOCK system from PETZL makes the crampons one of the most versatile from Petzl range. They are designed to adapt to all boots with heel or toe welts.Thanks to the interchangable binding system you can easily transform the these crampons from semi-automatic to automatic, just replacing the front adapt system which you will find in the box. 

The distribution of its 12 points provides stability and bite on low angles, as well as steeper terrain.

The SARKEN front section is for those wanting a technical mountaineering crampon that provides more security when climbing steeper ice and mixed terrain. This extra security comes from the more aggressive two front points that have a ‘T’ shape profile, rather than being just flat as like the VASAK front points.

The ‘T’ shape means that when you kick into the snow and stand up, there is still a flat section of front point helping with downward forces against any steeper snow, stopping the foot from slipping out. But there is also a vertical section underneath that which slices into any harder ice and the aggressive teeth stop the fronts points from slipping or pulling out. And so, stand on a bulge of hard ice wearing the flat Vasak front points, and your foot would just skate & slip out from underneath you. Stand on that same bulge of hard ice wearing the Sarken front section and the serrated teeth under the front points will bite into the ice stopping them slipping out from underneath you.

The Sarken’s also have a more aggressive second set of points again giving you more security kicking into that harder steep snow and ice.

The AlPEN ADAPT system used by PETZL is completely modular and allows you to change different moduls from the crampons such as: front section, linking bars, antibott system separately according to the activity. 

You can easily transform the crampons for ice climbing if you replace the front section with the one from DART model, or make it suitable for ski touring and classic trekking if use the IRVIS front section. 


SARKEN LEVERLOCK biposition linking bars make the crampons compatible with large range of boots (size 36 to 50).