Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!BlogPatrol has my stats, if your interested! A big thanks to all my readers for making it successful. Most of you have been here to read about the Helicopter on Everest,[...] Read More »

The UKC Forums - Everest Summit Helicopter Pictures! talks about how it looks in the photo that is clearly not everest that the helicopter has been cloned in as a fake! Ok, so I’m not saying that they didn’t land. They did, and I htink it’s absolutely incredible.. but come on guys[...] Read More »

The Omega Pacific Link Cam is somethign I saw over a year ago as a prototype. It’s now out, released & pretty cool. The idea is that as you pull the cam trigger it opens up pulling layer apon layer off until you have smaller cams left. Basically it is like having 3 cams in one. Cool huh![...] Read More »

Philip has now released his side of the story, I was keen not to post anything until I heard it… Photos and full documentation on a linke from this page. Howth Yacht Club: “On Wednesday 25th May, Philip Watson, Roger Cagney & Brian McDowell were en route from Howth to the Scottish [...] Read More »

Beat this Falvey! Gavin Bate has this morning reached the summit of Mount Everest. His Alpine style assault on the summit straight from Camp 2 has placed him on the summit without the use of supplemental oxygen. Gavin had to face down very windy conditions and he lost his glasses after camp 2, so it[...] Read More »

A team of Irish climbers are currently making their way to the Summit of Mount McKinley, North Americas highest Mountain (6194 Metres). The team include Pat Falvey and Dr. Clare O Leary who summited Everest in May 2004. This is part of the Irish 7 Summit expedition where Dr. Clare O Leary will attem[...] Read More »

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sat-nav looks to smart ideas: “The German company HCL Technologies, from München-Hallbergmoos, is working on an inexpensive device that would help developing-nation fishermen decide where to put down their nets. It relies on the principle that satellite signals &[...] Read More »

If you Google Search: annabella bond I’m #1…. It seems I made a spelling mistake! And so did 70 other people yesterday when they searched the same thing! It should be “Annabelle Bond”… Annebelle, my apologies! [...] Read More »

Can you believe it?! Thats Everest Summit in view! Click Here to see photos and a short video of the first helicopter landing on Evertest Summit I covered on Wednesday last. It’s well worth the viewing… So now I want to know.. whens the first tourist trip?! I have to say, in my book, th[...] Read More »

I love my North Face Base Camp Duffel Bag. It comes on almost every trip with me these days as it fit great in cars over rucksacks… and it’s uper to live out of. For a weekend with a base near a road, you can fit all your kit including rucksack in it til you get there. Just thought of [...] Read More »

Whilst most of the expeditions on the South side of Everest this yearare hunkered down in base camp chin wagging about the bad weather, andbleeding the media dry of stories, one man, Bruno Brunod from Italy,has other ideas. Bruno is perhaps best known for his incredible run upand down Cervino in Ita[...] Read More »

There were rumours in mid-May that a helicopter had been spotted nearthe summit of Everest. These rumours have just been confirmed byEUROCOPTER, maker of the Ecureuil/AStar AS 350 B3 helicopter, that on14 May, pilot Didier Delsalle landed on the summit of Mount Everest(8,850m) for 2 minutes. It̵[...] Read More »

Interesting… Annabelle Bond has finished here 7 Summits attempt in 360 days. Good show! I have featured her before in this blog, never knew she was daughter of Sir John Bond, head of HSBC. Explains where the funding for such an effort came from ;-) Today’s Scotsman: A businesswoman who [...] Read More »

http://www.champagnemummaltitudechallenge.com/ is the website for BearGrylls latest adventure. In just 37 days the record breaking attemptto eat the highest open air formal dinner will begin. A high altitudeballoon will ascend to 25,000ft where David Hempleman-Adams anotherworld adventurer and Bear [...] Read More »

<a href=”http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2241/2005-5-22/80@239411.htm”>ChineseMedia</a> say that a team of 24 Chinese mountaineers and researchershave been successful in leaving a survey beacon on the summit whichwill transmit it’s height, or at least allow measurement of i[...] Read More »

Great Sunset from Burrow Beach, Howth, Co Dublin, Ireland. last night! I took this with my Nokia 6600. Great evening! Legs are buggered from doing a sprint 100m race though!!  [...] Read More »