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! DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Deep Water Soloing World’s blog, having been very quiet for a while, has a post up detailing the forthcoming festivals this yea[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Bearded Git (BG) emailed me looking for ‘airtime’ for the Legalise Wild Camping in Wales & England campaign - just like they can in Scotland. They are looking to gather as many signatories as possible from UK Residents or Expats on the 10 Downing Street[...] Read More »

Visit the S4C webpage here North Wales, UK (Team Geared Up) - “Ioan Doyle, 17 from Bethesda, Gwynedd, is considered a young climber of exceptional talent and promise. This film documentary follows him over the summer of 2007 as he attempts to conquer some of the world’s most difficult r[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Neal McQuaid (TGU Blogger) has started a new climbing coaching company IrishClimbingCoching.ie with Nigel Callender. We are Irelands first and only dedicated Climbing Coaching provider, combining our own experience of top-level climbing with the science of performance a[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Sun. Blue skies. climbing in a t-shirt. Am I still in Thailand? Amazingly, I’m home: Ireland. After going through all the confusion of jumping multiple timezones, it’s been a shock to find myself arriving in weather just as good (if not as hot ;) as[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - All Climbing Blog alerted me to the video featured on UKClimbing of Rob Lamey on the first ascent of The Heel Hook Look 25m F8a, a deep water solo on Little Orme. The Heel Hook Look climbs across the obvious right-to-left rising break on Craig y Don Lower, Great Or[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - A bit late but Irish climber Dave Ayton, currently pushing hard on sports routes, has ticked his 2nd 8a/5.13b. The route, ‘Highway’ at the crag Dinbren in North Wales, involving crimps - lots of crimps and monos, seems to have been a pretty quick as[...] Read More »

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Just picked this interesting offer by ITV up via the BMC’s website! Are you a single guy? Passionate about keeping fit and being active? Believe in a healthy, clean-living lifestyle? Up for a challenge? ITV is making a new dating show and wants to fi[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It has been kayaked blind and windsurfed across but now Rupert and Al are kiting across the Irish Sea to raise money for the hospital that ‘put Al back together’ by kitesurfing across the Irish Sea. In March 2006, Aberdovey kitesurfer Al Crisp broke his ba[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Via mountaintraining.ie we’ve been alerted to the man who fell from 6m and somersaulted mid-air out of the fall to land on all-fours rather than his head! It was said his training as a ballet dancer helped him avoid serious head injuries! Coastguards said the man[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Irish Climber, Dave Ayton, relives another fantastic climb on his blog, his first 8a. Make sure to check out his post: The Final Solution at the End of the World - My first 8a. [My glasses] almost fall off my face but hang on one ear as I reach up to the opposition ho[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - Dave Birkett (UK) has climbed a new E9 (5.14a x according to website) in Wales. Video can be found on the UK’s current answer to BigUp Productions, Posing Productions. The route (as yet unnamed) as described from the site info (photo gallery here also): [...] Read More »