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LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Bungy Jumping is an activity linked to many an outdoor person for the adrenaline, backpacking in NZ, thrill rush, and links to climbing in terms of safety equipment. For this reason, we thought we’d bring you the top 5 bungy accidents as caught on video. I can[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The U.S. Coast Guard announced during a ceremony today in Grand Haven, Mich., for its 217th birthday that 1,109,310 lives have been saved since its establishment in 1790. Thanks to Irish Coast Guard member for news-tip. Top ten rescue videos is available here -Robin- [...] Read More »

Update 06/08/07: Aerial photo of the rescue effort shows how hidden the crevasse on the terminal moraine was. Seemingly reports state the group were unroped but on the track many other climbers had walked over in the previous days. LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to MountainTraining.ie for sen[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The London Evening Standard is reporting the death, as pictured above) of a City Entrepreneur who was attempting to snowboard Mustagata, a remote 24,600ft mountain in China. He was on a full expedition team with guides and while suffering from bad altitude illness he w[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A lovely update was written by Irish climber Cathal on SuperTopo.com Just to let you know, a beautiful ceremony in Michael’s memory was held on Valentia Island yesterday evening. A crowd of about 200 gathered to celebrate his life with music, song and many, many s[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to Bren at MountainTraining.ie for sharing this with TGU by email. He’s posted it himself and passed on permission. Our sympathy goes out to all family & friends. Matt Samet, Editor of Climbing magazine, UKClimbing.com’s USA news associate sent [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - RTE News are reporting one of the worlds top free solo climbers has fallen off a cliff face 21m into the sea off Valencia Island in Kerry. Hopes look very unlikely he’ll be alive as he fell yesterday. All we know: From United States He is understood to be o[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Spotted in the London Metro as my cameraphone shows below. A 19yr old Irish student trying to get the best photo he could on a swing bridge in New Zealand (Abel Tasman) fell 20m into the water and ended up being airlifted out. Photo Credit: Author Sea Kayaking with mo[...] Read More »