Team Geared Up

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) and they will find an answer and SMS you back for £1 or €2. This great story (read the lead-in here about how they got [...] 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 »

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) - 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 »

Thanks to Diverman for this tip-off. An S61N in Norway has now departed for its new base in Ireland, being noted en route yesterday refuelling at Aberdeen. We reported on this new full AWSAR (All Weather Search & Rescue) for Ireland back in February. Latest update is: As part of this new cont[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - This seems like a very clever and simple way to come up with funds. Surely when we see the members of the Dublin/Wicklow Mountain Rescue team on the streets of Dublin it should be other people behind the scenes collecting the money. The members of the rescue team [...] Read More »

RTÉ News A 14-year-old girl has been airlifted to hospital this evening after being injured in a fall on a mountainside in Connemara, Co Galway. The girl was climbing Diamond Hill near Letterfrack when the accident happened. She was taken to University College Hospital in Galway by the Sha[...] Read More »