Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Apologies for lack of posts, it’s a case of life and ironman getting in the way of blogging…. :-( What have I missed?: Gael Force 6 seems to have been won by Eoin Keith followed by Peter O’ Farrell, while Peter seems to have teamed up with Paul Mah[...] Read More »

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 away! We left off in Gressoney la Trinite near the Swiss-Italian border having climbed a great route on Castor. Back in our little [...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get[...] 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 »

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 »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Eoin & myself took a week earlier in the summer to bag a number of 4000ers in the alps. With our rock skills out of practice and our first trip both on together, we decided on a set of easy routes from the Italian sides which we hoped would give us a good base to [...] 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 »