Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - K2’s west face has finally been climbed been the Russian pairing of Andrew and Vadim with neither using supplementary oxygen. More than 200 people have climbed K2 this season with all previous summits before todays coming on either the Abruzzi spur or the Ce[...] 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 »

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 (Geared Up Blog) - Picture of Horia Colibasanu holding Inaki on Annapurna. Good to know the world of High altitude mountaineering isn’t completely commercial just yet. And some climbers will still take the time out to have some fun! -Eoin- [...] 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) - Yesterday i was with the first group of people in Ireland to see MSR’s new revolutionary stove. The Reactor is by far the coolest stove ive ever seen. It took 2 and a half minutes for it to boil a litre of water right in front of us. But the coolest thing by[...] 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) - Spanish climber Iñaki Ochoa de Olza has reached the summit of Dhaulagiri. Meanwhile there is no more news of the 2 Kazakhs attemping going up Everest as we speak. Mr. Ochoa has just Annapurna and Kangchenjunga left to summit. Iñaki topped-out today a[...] Read More »