Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to Ciaran Rooney (via Twitter) for the heads up. AQA offer a service where you can text any question to 63336 (UK) or 57275 (Ireland[...] Read More »

A 100% volunteer operated 999/112 Emergency Service - Charity Number 10148 SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We’ve got to support the mountain rescue team local to most of the TGU bloggers. Gerry, Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue PRO has left a message in our forums asking for your support at their[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The big thing stopping me from back country or off piece snowboarding is all the horror stories you hear about people getting in an avalanche and eventually suffocating if the force of colliding snow didn’t already kill them. True, methods of avalanche p[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Sorry about the cheesy title! Brian mailed me this morning to say their new site at www.doolincoastguard.com had gone live. The Doolin Unit of the Irish Coast Guard is located in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. All volunteers, on-call 24/7/365. If you’[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Via mountaintraining.ie we’ve been alerted to the man who fell from 6m and somersaulted mid-air out of the fall to land on all-fours rather than his head! It was said his training as a ballet dancer helped him avoid serious head injuries! Coastguards said the man[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The U.S. Coast Guard announced during a ceremony today in Grand Haven, Mich., for its 217th birthday that 1,109,310 lives have been saved since its establishment in 1790. Thanks to Irish Coast Guard member for news-tip. Top ten rescue videos is available here -Robin-[...] Read More »

Two Irish marine rescues this afternoon: RTE Report: Gardaí and rescue services are attempting to recover the body of a man found on rocks at the sea below the Cliffs of Moher. The Doolin Coastal Cliff rescue team along with the Shannon based rescue helicopter are working in the area to recover the[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The London Evening Standard is reporting the death, as pictured above) of a City Entrepreneur who was attempting to snowboard Mustagata, a remote 24,600ft mountain in China. He was on a full expedition team with guides and while suffering from bad altitude illness he w[...] 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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - RTE News are reporting one of the worlds top free solo climbers has fallen off a cliff face 21m into the sea off Valencia Island in Kerry. Hopes look very unlikely he’ll be alive as he fell yesterday. All we know: From United States He is understood to be o[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Cork Coastline. Thanks to reader Diverman for the submission! (don’t get the joke?) In other news - a body has been pulled from the sea in Clare but circumstances or if they are alive or dead is unconfirmed. [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The RNLI emailed me today to give notice of their eBay auctions. Apart from winning station tours of stations around the country, you can bid & win for 2 places to become ‘Crew For A Day’ at their award-winning Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset, on 24 A[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - We got a message that a yacht has been spotted by an Irish Air corps plane drifting 68 miles off the west coast of Ireland with no mast and had previously done a few capsizes. The yacht had left the West Indies over 2 weeks ago ad had lost all radio contact (Did t[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Over the weekend we tried to find out a little bit about our readers. It proved a great experiment - we’ve a number of serious adventurers hi Alan, Neil, Rick, Shane, Mariano & Richard. We’ve got Sunday Times journalists, Adventure Racers, marathon kay[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - RTE News Report another tragic accident involving a climber/walker in Kerry. The body of a climber has been recovered from West Kerry. The man, believed to have been in his 50s and from Co Dublin, became separated from a group of climbers last night. The group had been [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This shocking video shot from a helicopter shows a very good effort by volunteer rescue workers in the UK Coast Guard saving a female suicide jumper. 2 members of the UK Coast Guard approach the suicide jumper from behind, and as she backs out for a brief moment one [...] Read More »