Team Geared Up

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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Eamon Costello sent us his detailed account of climbing Mt Blanc with a guiding company this summer. Eamon’s report makes great reading for anyone thinking of climbing the peak - and closely matches my own experience in 2003 (although a storm took us off the[...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Team Geared Up) - This photo came down the wire from watershed news. “The photo of the Bottleneck was taken just after the Serbian fell,” Nicholas Rice, 23, of Hermosa Beach, said in an e-mail early Wednesday from K2 base camp. The Bottleneck photo shows a line[...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Team Geared Up) - Irish Climber Gerard McDonnell is missing on K2. K2 is regarded as one of the most all-round difficult mountains in the world with only around 189 climbers having reached the summit, 49 climbers have died on K2, 22 while descending it. The 37-year-old from [...] Read More »

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 »

CHICAGO, USA (Team Geared Up) - For this week, some links for tri-athletes, runners and multi-sports practitioners who may benefit from cross-training, both from a performance and an injury-free racing point of view. Keep the hard days hard and easy the easy days : interesting post about how alter[...] Read More »

UPDATE 2215hrs - Video of torch on summit via Reuters: SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - An incoming report on the news today started like this… EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was lit at the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, the crowning moment of the Beijing Games torch r[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Spotted on GO Blog, here’s a movie I will be queuing up to see. Blindsight the documentary/movie follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on their journey to climb a mountain in the shadow of Everest. Lhakpa-Ri peak, the goal of the expedition, is 2[...] Read More »