Team Geared Up

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - An insight into the training and diet of Scott Jurek which i think is definitely worth listening to if your considering doing an Ultra Marathon. Jurek holds the course record for the Western States 100 and won the event 7 years in a row. He also holds the course record for[...] 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) - There has been lots of comments on my post about Extreme Mountain Biking the Cliffs of Moher. Much debate both online & offline - should they have put themselves at such risk, what if they fell? Who picks up the pieces at the bottom? The most worrying thing to me [...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Get Outdoors Blog are reporting Ines Papert, (previously featured in our Hot Girls with Ice Axes post when we saw her climbing at the Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival) has climbed “Law & Order” M13 (Mixed Route Graded 13). Ines Papert has repeated “L[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Two mountaineering friends that Darran & myself worked with at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC) in Switzerland are planning to ski 570km unsupported across Greenland in an effort to raise funds to help Scouts rebuild Southern Lebanon and to celebrate 1[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - The Metro in London this morning is reporting that AJ Hackett is to jump out of a helicopter on a 1.5km bungy line doubling the current 700m record. I’d like to see that one. Photo Credit: AJ Hackett Bungy off Auckland Harbour Bridge, by the Author. [...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Just to end all the confusion over which is the better species. I think the following story will show you that if they’d brought a cat along with them on the climb they wouldn’t be here today. To sum up a group of 3 American climbers were climbing Mt. Hood when[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Kudos to TCAL for spotting this one (we missed it!). A sky diver’s helmet cam shows how his shoot doesn’t deploy, and he’s lands at 80mph in a forest but survives with some broken bones and punctured lung. Nice. His friend films the whole thing too from b[...] Read More »