Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - TGU blogger Eoin arrives here in London in 14hrs time. Friday 1920hrs we fly to Turin, the location of the last Winter Olympics to hire a car and drive north. We’ll be laden down with ice axes, screws, crampons, ice-line rope, poles, winter boots, shed loads of g[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Aisling mentioned my hero ;-) had won a “Greatest Living Briton” award last night, I couldn’t let the chance go without giving a link to Ranulph Fiennes MySpace page where I found the fantastic video of his Eiger climb. Sir Ranulph Fiennes has confes[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The North Face Ultra-Trail Tour du Mont Blanc is 160k of mountain trail run continuously over about 2 days through some of the most spectactular scenery in the world. Three countries in one race! When registration opened last January the allocation was completely fil[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Yes, It’s possible! Eoin & myself left his car at Glenmacnass Waterfall and headed off into the evening with a rope & two full packs complete with down bags & bivvi gear. On route we had 3 revelations… Stay in huts in the Alps - even bivvi [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Miha Valic of Slovenia climbed all of the alps 82 4,000m peaks this recent winter. His target was to complete the challenge in 82 days during the calender winter but delays due to weather meant he finished his final peak, Les Droites, on April 7th. He began his qu[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Quite an incredible time to climb it in. Check out Ueli Steck at his website to keep up to date with any future challenges he is going to set himself. It takes a lot to climb to the top rung of the mountaineering ladder. Mountain Hardwear athlete Ueli Steck, 30, of Switzer[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Well i got my letter in the post this week confirming i have a place at the start line of the Jungfrau Marathon this September. I must say im now really excited and really looking forward to the experience. I have had to pull out of this weekends Ultra Marathon in Connemar[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - If you hadn’t heard already, Ranulph Fiennes at age 62 stood on top of the Eiger in the European Alps having climbed its North Face on a 5 day bigwall climb. If you need a reminder of how tough this guy is, remember he only has half his fingers left, he sawed the [...] Read More »