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Customers often ask what the ICEGRIPPER crew do in Summer?
The truth is we continue selling our products - serving our customers with advice and information - because even in the middle of the British Summer, it's winter somewhere else..!

Whether you call them ice cleats, shoe chains, ice spikes or an icegripper, ‘personal traction devices’ are rapidly gaining popularity as a ‘must have’ piece of winter equipment. Most people would be forgiven for assuming these devices are a recent invention, but research reveals this humble product has a long and interesting history...

Ukraine has a temperate continental climate with cold, snowy winters and warm summers. In Kiev, the Capital, on average snow falls for 51 days with typical winter temperatures in December, January and February rarely exceeding -1C, with an average low-temperature of -5.8°C

So you'd think they would be pretty well sorted for winter traction products? That doesn't appear to be the case, though. Here's Karl's ICEGRIPPER CUSTOMER STORY