Team Geared Up

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, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Dutch Iceman, Wim Hof, will attempt to climb Mount Everest from the north side this year only wearing shorts on his core body. He will have a hat, gloves, boots and carry his own bag which may add a little bit of protection. Mr. Hof will use his free climbing skil[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Now this is crazy. At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped fr[...] 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 »

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) - 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 »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Rumours have more or less been confirmed the the Olympic torch will visit the summit of Mount Everest on the relay to the games in Beijing, China in 2008. I wonder what would happen if the torch fell down a crevasse and it wasnt able to be rescued? Could be an embarassing [...] Read More »

‘Shark fin’ route marked in black. (Image courtesy of K2Climb.net) Czech climbers summited have opened a new route on Mt. Meru (6310m) after 13 days on the wall reports K2Climb.net. (K2Climb.net) Czech climbers Marek Holecek and Jan Kreisinger have opened an impressive new route on the[...] Read More »