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6
2008
11:50am Everest Summit Video
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Just interesting video on what a day is like when summiting Everest. Crazy to see how many people your sharing the summit with! -Eoinod- [...] Read More »
Jun
8
2008
12:52pm Irish on K2 2008
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Gerard McDonnell is going back to K2 this year as part of a Dutch expedition to climb the formidable mountain. I’m not sure is he part of their team or just with the expedition so that he can attain his climbing permit. The expedition website is here though [...] Read More »
May
14
2008
11:06pm Maxut bags his 12th 8000er
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Kazakh climber Maxut climbed his 12th 8000er today. He topped out on Manaslu at 10am their time. I also forgot to comment on Ueli Steck and his first ascent of the Northface of Tengkampoche with Simon Anthamatten in Alpine style. They are using this as a ̵[...] Read More »
Apr
3
2008
9:00am Everest Permits-May 10th
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) It looks like the permanent permits for the South side of Everest have been issued for this year. However climbers will not be allowed move above camp 2 until the 1st of May and they will have to take a ‘rest’ at Base Camp between the 1-10th of May. This[...] Read More »
Nov
5
2007
1:06am Elbrus Race
DUBLIN, IRELAND(Geared Up Blog) - This seems like one of the more crazy races to me. I noticed the existence of the race when i was looking on Mounteverest.net and i couldn’t quite believe it. The calibre of people entering the race is unreal. The race was originally set up as a training prog[...] Read More »
Sep
23
2007
9:28am Xtreme Everest Doctors Expedition
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog)- The expedition earlier this year, by a large team of doctors, to place members of their team on top of Everest and also take blood samples along the way will be shown as a documentary on BBC. Tonight (23/9)the first hour long part will be on BBC2 at 8.00pm and the[...] Read More »
Sep
13
2007
7:52pm The next level, skiing all 14 of the world’s 8000 metre peaks!
DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Climbing all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks is old hat, so a new generation of adventurers is gearing up for what could be mountaineering’s next great challenge — getting down them on skis. Heading into Nepal’s Himalayan mo[...] Read More »
