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!NY unveils plan for more secure tower - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Nation - News Reports the following about the construction of the Twin Towers WTC replacement: &#[...] Read More »

Google Earth has launched as a competitor to NASA World Wind and as an update to Keyhole. To be honest though, it should be called Google USA at this stage as the rest of the world has shabby imagery. I still want to test out the 3D buildings, but none of the contouring thats in NASA Worldwind is th[...] Read More »

BEAR GRYLLS JUMPS TOMORROW! Champagne Mumm Altitude Challenge: “Bear writes: ‘The entire team has been on tenter hooks waiting for the forecast and finally at 1800hrs we were given the all-clear to attempt to reach such extreme heights over southern England. The team hope for an early ni[...] Read More »

Harrogate Today: “AN ARMY officer, based at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, hopes to lead the first British team up the steepest side of Everest in March 2006.Warrant officer Dave Bunting, who has been a mountaineering instructor for nine years, will lead a team made up of 21 members[...] Read More »

RTE News - Climber rescued off Carrauntwohill You can always count on the Irish for knowing how to spell their highest mountain!! haha twohill [...] Read More »

Rescue Training Resource and Guide - Scenarios Great site with Traiing Scenarios. [...] Read More »

Guess Where I was last night?! U2 Gig in Croke Park, Dublin!  [...] Read More »

UKC Photos has a classic photo of Golden Cathedral, Neon Canyon, Utah. It’s really nice! [...] Read More »

Google Maps now has a those extra bits. Pity Google Local dosn’t work in Ireland yet :-( [...] Read More »

Click Here for the most incredible stunt I’ve ever seen! Nut Job! [...] Read More »

The Wetass Chronicles features a Brilliant Basejumping video on a 1000m pitch in Mexico. Sweet. Climb & Jump! [...] Read More »

I’ve been getting into trail running recently… here’s a great race I found. 155km Welcome to the international Mont-Blanc Ultra trail web site [...] Read More »

Only a day after reporting it’s launch… they lost it! RTE News - Russia loses contact with spacecraft: “Russia’s Northern Fleet has announced the loss of the world’s first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1. The craft was launched on a ballistic missile from a Russ[...] Read More »

The sail reflects particles of light, or photons, from the Sun, gaining momentum in the opposite direction and driving the spacecraft forward. Some think solar sails offer a cheaper, faster form of spacecraft propulsion. The US, European, Japanese and Russian space agencies also have solar sa[...] Read More »

American Climbing Legend to Retire at Peak: “As he hit the peak of his career as perhaps America’s most accomplished mountain climber, Ed Viesturs decided to retire. When he reached the summit of 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal on May 12, Viesturs became the first American and 12th climbe[...] Read More »

Gavin Bate made what I consider to be one of the greatest Irish mountaineering achievements this season. Great stuff all together…. And he’s already now on Elbrus! I will be following his 2007 trip with excitment… the first North to South traverse of Everest. Up the north ridge, do[...] Read More »