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LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Don’t miss Bear Grylls blog. He’s just taken a record for the highest ever paraglider flight, by flying a lap of Everest’s summit! This guy is great: Soon our gps’s froze, followed soon after by our variometers. Our radios range was now reduced [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Irish Woman Hannah Shields is standing on the summit of Everest! Hannah is the first woman from Northern Ireland to manage this summit. She got to 300ft from the same point 4 years ago. A Co Derry athlete has become the first Northern Ireland woman to conquer Moun[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Outsider are reporting that Ian McKeever has summited Everest as part of a world record breaking attempt to climb the Seven Summits. That’s 5 down and 2 more to go. According to Outsider: McKeever, together with Dave Pritt (Director of Adventure Peaks) and Jo[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Sorry i’m a bit late with the report. Happened a couple of days ago now! Of the 14 8,000ers both have now summited 11 with Lhotse, Manaslu and K2 the only ones left. “The Kazakh climbers had a small amount of trouble on their descent,” has just h[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I wonder are these the highest arrests ever made? Although there may be the first summits of the year as Maxut and Vassily, 2 Kazakhs, are making and alpine style ascent from ABC on the North side. Without Oxygen, pre-set camps or any fixed ropes on the higher par[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - This will be absolutely incredible if he can manage to do Lhotse and Everest in a day and just to make things a little more exciting spend 24 hours on top of the world with no supplementary oxygen. I wonder will he be able to do it? I’ve also seen stuff on mountevere[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A British professor is planning to take his 9 kids on an expedition up Everest to see how the altitude effects their bodies. Along with his own offspring, four of the professor’s nephews and nieces will shortly head to Kathmandu. This is apparently in [...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - A new series on the discovery channel is on at the moment about and attempt on Everest. The website on the discovery linked to above is great as well and well worth a look. Russell Brice is leading the expedition and from the videos on their site it looks like a really goo[...] Read More »