Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - If you’ve got BBC2 TV channel there’s some can’t miss TV on tonight…Across the Andes: Beyond Boundaries - Fri 9 May, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm. A friend’s sister, Julie who I’ve been in email contact with, is a star of the show! All of them [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - The Rat Race (I took part in the London Rat Race last year) is coming to Ireland. Great news. The much-loved event, having experienced runaway success in Britain, is now set to reach the shores of the Emerald Isle with 2 new and exciting events planned for Galway and Be[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We know less about our oceans than we do about Space. Google are about to shift things a little and produce a consumer tool (a version of Google Earth) that lets you fly around the seabed, through canyons and over buried treasure. Announcing Google Ocean: The company ha[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - Ben Saunders clearly has a love of the cold. An unknown name to me until last week, I found out that Ben was the youngest person to ever ski solo to the North Pole. Born in 1977, Ben grew up in Devon, was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and liv[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Wee Adventure Film Festival will be held in Dublin on 7th February 2008. The Wee Adventure Film Festival is an amateur film festival that will show adventure sports films made by people who do adventure sports. If you are into MTB, rockclimbing, free-running, kayak[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here’s your weekly digest of the stories that didn’t make it to the TGU front-page this week. — A Russian Ice Climber trains on the front of an Apartment Block in winter. No wonder the recent K2 West Face was no problem to them! — Cycling route[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - A book has been published with over 200 pictures of the race on over 80 pages. A great coffee table book for all those who took part! You can purchase the book online from Sleepmonsters for £35 including delivery(but maybe not to Ireland). To attempt to portray[...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - I was off researching another article and came across this snippet that Dean Karnazes was won this year’s “2007 ESPY award as the Best Outdoor Athlete.” The official list of all winners can be found on ESPN’s site here. A more det[...] Read More »