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DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Ranulph Fiennes is returning to Everest once again. He will be attempting the peak for the third time next yeah with the same guide, Kenton Cool, he climbed the North Face of the Eiger early this year. He will also have with him Dr Rob Casserley who is a medic and[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Remember TGU featured in last weekend’s Sunday Times article about adventure? Well with kind permission from the Sunday Times we can reporoduce the article for all those that didn’t run out and purchase a copy! Because it’s quite a long piece of tex[...] Read More »

IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Geared Up Reader and journalist Richard Oakley asks many questions in todays Sunday Times that you adventure readers will find interesting. He looks into the growing number of people who are attempting challenges that, a few years previous, most were just happy to survive. H[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND(Geared Up Blog) - I know this sounds far fetched but work has began on a highway to Everest Base Camp. The Chinese government are carrying out the work with the Olympic torch in mind. And with nearly 500 people summiting this year i wonder will the number increase even more with this[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Tomorrow sees the running of the annual Wicklow Way relay with about 28 teams of up to 8 people running across 120k of the famous route. I think we’re making history as the first all-female team to compete, as we have 8 Clonliffe harriers mountain running girls[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The Irish Times are reporting that three Irish doctors have summited Everest from south side of the mountain. Here’s a posting by sister-in-law of Dr. Nigel Hart, one of six doctors conducting medical experiments there. The other Irish summiters were Roger McMo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Northern Irish climber Gavin Bates who very nearly made the summit of Everest without oxygen previously but got stuck in a summit block rope queue has been making another attempt. It sounds like it went scarcely wrong. The adventure blog is reporting: The word is that G[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Yes, Samantha Larson is on Annabelle’s case! As reported on every other blog, Samantha became the youngest person to complete the highest peak on each of the 7 continents during the week. It can’t be a disadvantage that she’s also hot. Annabelle Bond [...] Read More »