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! SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Ok, so this is part III (see part I Gran Paradiso and part II Castor). This should get you in the mood for the Summer that’s not far [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The entry requirements for the North Face Ultra Trail du Tour du Mont Blanc have just been announced. Up until now entry was first come, first served, until last year when you had to have completed at least a couple of ultras. But because the finisher level was stil[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The big thing stopping me from back country or off piece snowboarding is all the horror stories you hear about people getting in an avalanche and eventually suffocating if the force of colliding snow didn’t already kill them. True, methods of avalanche p[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK, (Team Geared Up) - This one wins all the prizes. Forget ascending Everest blind, as an amputee or even running the A-Z of Marathons, this is way cooler. Having tried to climb Mont Blanc myself (and getting white washed off in a snow storm) I have ultimate respect for them lobbing these [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - As I posted on TGU in 2005, after hearing Simon Anthamatten speak at the Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival about his 7 new lines on the Eiger North-face in one summer and seeing him climbing I was truly taken by him. Amazing character, although it helps if your ‘d[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Just back from my twice weekly trip to Switzerland ha ha (!!) :-) . What an adventure, I was gonna say my feet haven’t touched the ground but they have, quite a lot, literally! They were hitting the dirt last weekend in Ovronnaz Switzerland for the World Mounta[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This is part II and our ascent of Castor (see Part I: Gran Paradiso). Castor is a 4226m peak located in Switzerland but we climbed from Gressoney la Trinite in Italy which climbs up a long valley from Pont St Martine, the devil town with no ATMs, Maps or Guidebooks. It[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Ever been at a marathon where the finish race facilities included hairdriers and where you could have a shower with a view of the Eiger, Monch and the Jungfrau? I was more shocked about the hairdryers! Seriously it was the most incredible experience! It’s an ab[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well the essentials are packed and I’m ready for this mornings flight to Geneva, and by essentials I mean food, trashy magazines and hair straighteners. As we’ve blogged before, TGU Blogger Eoin and myself are heading over to Interlaken for the Jungfrau m[...] Read More »

UPDATE: Digg This Story. DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Remember the Running Dan? Robin reported on his A-Z of marathons when he was setting out back in April. Well the good news is he’s still going and getting through those marathons like the super hero is is! The jist of the whole thing is[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Those hoping to make the Irish mountain running teams for the WMRA World Trophy will be heading to Trooperstown Co. Wicklow for the Irish trial race this Sunday. It’s 12k for the senior men, 8k for the senior women and junior men. Vets John Lenihan and Robin B[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) With the Aer Lingus strike averted, this afternoon a number of Irish runners are heading over to Chamonix for the running of the North Face Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc. It’s 163k through 3 countries run continuously over about 2 days through the Alps. Includ[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Over 600 people stripped off at the Alestch Glacier, Switzerland, to protest about the increasing Global warming going on in the world. They were highlighting just how much the glacier has melted in recent years. I found this on Greenpeace’s website but i am[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Two of us are just back from a European Alps climbing trip so this news hits home. Six alpine climbers have died in separate incidents yesterday when temperature on the high mountain plummeted. 1,2,3,4: French authorities found four dead climbers on the Bionassay crest[...] Read More »