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Jan
14
2008
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5:16am First Scheduled Passenger Flight to Antartica

SINGAPORE - The first scheduled passenger flight to Antarctica landed yesterday. The Australia/Hobart to the Australian Casey Station will fly weekly transporting public and scientists to the base. The first scheduled Australian passenger flight, Airbus A319, left the Australian city of Hobart the [...] Read More »


Jan
4
2008
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4:08pm Friday Links: Err-igal MTB, Wingsuit Video, Iceberg-oldering, RNLI in Massive Seas

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »


Aug
22
2007
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1:29am Surfing: Ice Cliff Waves In The Arctic.

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - If a naked protest on a glacier wasn’t cold enough for you this week Go Blog links to a video of lads surfing waves crated by large collapses of ice from ice cliffs. McNamara and Kealii Mamala rode into surfing history last week when they towed into a monster tsu[...] Read More »


Jun
20
2007
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11:26pm TGU Alpine Climbing 2007

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 »