Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’ve woken up to a set of camera phone photos, one from each summit in the first 7.5hrs of the first Wicklow round attempt. Aisling also sent me her proposed summit times for the route - and very cleverly turned on timestamps on the photos, so I’ll now[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Our fellow TGU blogger Aisling has just sent the first live moblog photo from the start line of their Wicklow Round attempt. This is the very first attempt to complete this route in under 24hrs. TGU Eoin will be marshaling one of the night-time summits so hopefull[...] Read More »

Held in DCU - big up Anna, Claire & Brendan: Open A Name 10s 7s 4s Bonus Total —- —————— — — — —– —– 1 Harry Fogg 14 1 0 4 151 1 Lukas Dep[...] Read More »

Come on readers! This is a reminder: We need all the votes you can muster! That’s right. 3 days of voting left and we’ve logged 1100 votes so far. If the voting patterns do not change as the week goes on then I think we’re in for some major shocks.[...] Read More »

LONDON, DUBLIN, NEW YORK & WHISTLER (Geared Up Blog) - We were a nominee last year but came away with nothing. This year we need to rally the troops to vote us through. We’ve been short listed for both “Best Group Blog”, “Best Sports & Recreation Blog” &[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Marko Prezelj and Boris Lorencic have won the Piolet d’Or this year for the first ascent of the Northwest Pillar of Chomo Lhari (c. 7,314m) in the Himalayas, Tibet. Read a full report of the climb here. Marko Prezelj is the only man to have won the award twice, as [...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Radar & Urban Climber are holding a competition to win a bouldering mat (crash pad). All you’ve got to do is take climbing photos on your phone and upload them to Radar, a new photo sharing service. What’s Radar? Radar is a rapidly growing new service tha[...] Read More »

We will let you know if the event is going ahead as planned below! Hi all, We, DCU Rock Climbing Club are trying to raise E5000 to get our wall upgraded. We were thinking of holding a competition, similar to the IBL, in order to help raise funds. All proceeds will go towards the wall upgrade. Howe[...] Read More »