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DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Registration for this picturesque marathon will be closed soon so make sure you register online. Don’t worry you don’t have to pay yet, just register to go into the draw for a place in one of the 4000 runners. You may even see part of the Geared Up team there i[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - The course is principally aimed at those aged 16-19, who are already committed to mountaineering, competent in the Irish and British Hills and comfortable with wild and steep places. The Alpine trip will be a training course, not a guided holiday, aimed at people going t[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Ivan Nenkov (25), Philip Jasmati (28), and Tihomir Stoyanov (30) were found dead on the norhtern slope of the Matterhorn. Veselina Shishkova, who waited for them in Zermatt, called the mountain rescue services on 29 January after she lost contact with her friends. Dimitar [...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Press play below, and be in awe. Speed-riding has to be one of the craziest sports I’ve seen recently. The boys at Acro-Base who seem to be pioneering it, have recently filmed a video of a speed-ride down the Eiger. It’s amazing footage. Speed-riding appears to[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Looks like next years World Mountain Running Trophy won’t have, the king of the mountains, Jonathon Wyatt competeing in it. The race is to be held in Saillon/Ovronnaz, Switzerland on September 15/16th and the race will be the up and back down format. I wonder will we [...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - This race is pretty crazy looking. How Peter Roman completed the course in 6hrs 45minsi really dont know! Looks like it will have to be another one of those events i stick down on the list as a must do in the future.. Check out the site here Also a good report on the race[...] Read More »

Eiger Monch & Jungfrau, Winter 04 (Photo by Geared Up) SuperClimb report: A massive chunk of Alpine mountain fell from one of Switzerland’s most famous peaks, an event largely expected after days of warnings from scientists regarding rock loosened by melting glacial ice. In a thundering[...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up (Glacial Melt meets Rain Runoff) Years ago when I was hiking through the Alps in Switzerland, I reached the top of the high pass called Bonderkrinde, just before the town of Kandersteg. Triumphant and exhausted, I looked at the view. There it was, hidden from almost everyone but [...] Read More »