NEWS
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New Product: Skincare Kit
We’re launching a new product today: a full skincare kit for climbers. Everything to maintain strong and supple skin now comes in a small bag for you to carry to the gym or crag.The kit contains our 2 main skincare products and all the accessories you need:* Repair Balm: A beeswax-based balm to help your skin recover o
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Now Available at Mounteq
CHALK REBELS products are now available at Mounteq both in the online store and real-life shop in Waregem. It's a great feeling to see our products among a rich collection of climbing gear and technical outdoor gear. It truly is something different to see your products displayed in a traditional retail location. It's
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Another 270 Trees Planted
It's that time of the month again: tree-planting time! We have built taking care of the environment right into our business model. The principle is super simple and transparent: one tree planted for every product sold. We started sales with our first gym (Klimzaal Blok) and online partner (Stray Outdoor). We also made
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CHALK REBELS Goes Stray
Stray Outdoor is our first online retail partner. We're excited to work with Thomas, Emil, and Maarten because we share that same passion for building a sustainable business. Just like us they are a part of the 1% for the Planet network. They're about more than just climbing though: climbing, surfing, hiking... They fo
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CHALK REBELS & Klimzaal Blok
Klimzaal Blok is our very first retail partner in Belgium. We’re super excited to have this legend in the climbing community carry our products. On Sunday February 21, they will open their pop-up “BLOK SHOP”. We like how their response to the COVID struggle is to organize a massive day of climbing gear sales. Action in
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Brush Your Holds - A Demo
Other brands have athletes. We have dirtbags who have committed to the the climbing lifestyle for life. Filip Notebaert moved from Belgium to Fontainebleau almost a decade ago and has steadily been building up an impressive portfolio of sends. He has about 1,400 boulders documented on his YouTube channel. Filip will he
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The Story Behind the Picture: Tess
Tess Driessens on DNA 7a, Kalymnos, Greece. Photo taken by Steven De Decker. Sometimes completely forgoing natural light is better for both the climber and the photographer. Here's Tess about the climb: DNA (grande grotta, Kalymnos) was my first 7a and a climbing experience to never forget. Back in those days, DNA was
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Mission & Products
Our mission is to reduce the use of chalk powder in the climbing community. Chalk dust in climbing gyms is unhealthy and can reduce athletic performance. Outdoor chalk use is turning our once beautiful natural rock into an ugly bleached mess. Chalk over-use causes dry skin prone to cracking. Time to start using less
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Happy New Year!
It's hard to believe that this picture was taken on our China climbing trip about a year ago. We spent Christmas in Shigu and New Year in Liming, climbing the most delicious sandstone cracks. It's on New Year's Day in Liming that the idea for CHALK REBELS finally gelled. Initially, it was more like "Let's do something
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Plant Your Tree
This year we have planted 400 trees in total to cover the product samples we have been sending out. The effort is part of our pledge to plant one tree for every product sold. We are setting up a tree registry and soon you will be able to register and virtually plant your tree online. Each product we sell comes with a u
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