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Technical Details

I acquired my Camp Swing from Eastern Mountain Sports in 2020.

My Camp Swing is 23 mm. long, 88 mm. wide, 31 mm. high, and weighs 149 g. It has a 15 mm. eye for attaching to a fixed achor. The other end has a ribbed V-groove and a release tab.

The Camp Swing plate is made from forged aluminum. The lanyard is 1.15 m. long and made from 9.7 mm. dynamic rope. The user end has a 110 mm. sewn eye for girth hitching to the user’s harness. The other end is also sewn into an eye, but this is covered with heavy clear heat-shrink to fom a hand grip.

Comments

The Camp Swing is not rigged like normal adjustable cows-tails. The end with the eye is girth hitched to the user’s harness and the metal body is clipped to a carabiner at the anchor. The user can shorten the attachment by pulling on the free end, or lengthen it with the thumb tab.

History

Blacksmith Nicola Codega founded C.A.M.P. in 1889 to produce wrought-iron goods. The company first entered the climbing equipment business in 1920 when Nicola's son Antonio started making ice axes for the Italian Army Alpine Corps. The firm continued to grow and was handed down through the family.

From about 1950 through 1976, C.A.M.P. used a diamopnd-shaped logo bearing "D CN & FD CAMP" for "Ditta Cogenda Nicol;a & Figli De Cogedga Antonio Metilde Premana.

In 1968, C.A.M.P. entrusted Robert Charles Maillot and his firm Interalp to distribute C.A.M.P. products outside Italy. These products bore both C.A.M.P. and INTERALP logos. Their relationship continued until 1980.

C.A.M.P. changed its name to "Construzione Articoli Montagna Premana" in 1972.

In 1977 C.A.M.P. started using a new logo with "CAMP" inside a rounded rectangle above a mountian.

C.A.M.P. introduced a new wolfs-head logo in 1992.

C.A.M.P. acquired Cassin in 1997.

In 2003 C.A.M.P. again changed the company name, this time to "Concezione Articoli Montagna Premana, and changed their logo to CAMP in italics.

C.A.M.P. introduced another new logo in 2022.