Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Eh, how’d we miss this one!? In 2008 Simon Evans and Fearghal O’Nuallain will leave their homes in Wicklow (Ireland) and begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world by bike and by boat. So I spotted a trackback to TGU posted by Fearghal on the Revoluti[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - Ben Saunders clearly has a love of the cold. An unknown name to me until last week, I found out that Ben was the youngest person to ever ski solo to the North Pole. Born in 1977, Ben grew up in Devon, was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and liv[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Part 1 - Rodellar - Myself and 5 others headed off to Spain for our annual Euro sports climbing trip in October. Four days in Rodellar and 4 days in the Costa Daurada. Here’s a quick (well not so quick) trip-report/how-to of what we did. A Google map relati[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Just a reminder; Robin reported a while back that RTE were making a documentary called Beyond Endurance featuring explorer Pat Falvey. Well the first of this four part series airs tomorrow night at 7pm (Tuesday 23rd October) as a group of ordinary joes attempt to fo[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Imagine setting off on holiday at age 26, and returning back aged 40. No, Jason Lewis was not held hostage - he was circumnavigating the globe by human power only. Jason arrived back in London yesterday having cycled, walked, pedal-boated around the entire globe. [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Three Irish 23 year olds plan to set off from Ireland on September 8th 2007 and arrive at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008. They’ll pedal through Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to user “Crosshaven Lifeboat” for submitting a link to the personal diary of Emil Grimsson on the support crew while filming the BBC Top Gear Arctic Polar Expedition to the ‘Magnetic North Pole (1996)’. It’s a good look behind the s[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Top Gear Polar Special aired tonight on BBC2. It was brilliant - having been trained up by Ranulph Fiennes, Jeremy Clarkson & James May set off to drive to the North Pole in a race against Richard Hammond who set off with the traditional Sledge Dogs. Watch Vid[...] Read More »