Team Geared Up

TON SAI, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - Sean Vilanueva, aka ‘Belgian Sean’ has climbed E8, freed an A0 roof pitch and had a nasty abseil on 3 day trip to Fairhead. Wednesday turned out wet but Sean had a look at A Bad Skin Day (E7 6c) before the rest of the rain set in. The next day it wa[...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After what has been largely a disastrous summer for Irish climbing with a lot of rain, rain and more rain (as one friend put it with that amusing Irish curse, “the weather’s been sh&*e”), I thought I’d drag together whatever [...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After our recent link to Dave MacLeod’s write-up on his own thoughts on his new route, To Hell and Back, and all the problems that became associated with it, PosingProductions, one of the camera teams (and producers of the amazing E11 movie and fri[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - Chris Sharma (USA), ever-present with new and ridiculously hard ascents, has put up a new 9a (5.14d) at Ceuse featuring his old reliable move: three dynos. Obviously the training (7-foot dyno) on that deep water solo in Majorca last year paid off in other locat[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - I unfortunately missed this one as it’s almost 4 weeks ago now, but it definitely deserves a mention. Local Burren climbing website, Ailladie.com, is reporting that Gregor (the site’s author) has succeeded on a rare repeat of Sunbane (E6 6b/c, 5.1[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - It seems Trauma on the crag of Dinas Mot in Wales, is now a regular high-end route for the E9 climbers, having received it’s 3rd (and 4th overall) ascent in a year. www.alpinist.com have a great write-up covering the ascent by James McHaffie in the past [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to Bren at MountainTraining.ie for sharing this with TGU by email. He’s posted it himself and passed on permission. Our sympathy goes out to all family & friends. Matt Samet, Editor of Climbing magazine, UKClimbing.com’s USA news associate sent [...] Read More »