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RTE News A female climber who was injured in a fall close to the summit of Mount Brandon in Kerry has been airlifted to hospital this evening. The woman, who is in her 40s, was climbing with a male companion. The accident happened shortly after 3.30pm. The Shannon-based Coast Guard helicopter brough[...] Read More »

UPDATE: The 68-year-old man who went missing while hillwalking in the Galtee Mountains has been found safe and well. The hillwalker, who was reported missing last night, was located near Galtymore. Link LONDON (Team Geared Up) - Members of the South East Mountain Rescue team are out on a search for [...] Read More »

WHISTLER, BC (Geared Up Blog) - Robot Gossip has a story on a group who have launched an initiative, Rescue on Everest, to provide an unmanned helicopter rescue for Mount Everest. With the help of The Alpine Wasp they hope to establish a self-funding rescue system based near Mt. Everest. The rescu[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Reuters.co.uk has video footage of the ongoing rescue in Oregon, U.S. This morning they’ve discovered a body in a dugout snow cave. Three climbers are missing having set out on a winter route up Mt Hood and were last tracked by mobile phone signal to 300m from the su[...] Read More »

Update: THURSDAY 09:29hrs - The dead body of missing CNET editor James Kim has been located. Messages for the Kim family can be left here. Kim apparently travelled in an 8-mile circle and was found less than a mile, separated by a sheer cliff, from where his family’s station wagon got stuck [...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - The minute I heard this, I knew who it was going to be. 22-year-old former Swedish special forces soldier Olof Jansson who set out on a trek from Mangerton Mountain to Carrantuohill on 28 December 2004. I remember walking Mangerton soon after myself and we were all keeping [...] Read More »

Tourist saved - Irish Independent AN AMERICAN tourist was brought to safety after becoming lost in the Donegal mountains overnight. Fifteen members of the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team combed the Derryveagh mountain range for eight hours before locating the missing man, who is in his late 50s, at aro[...] Read More »

Photo Credit: Jamie McGuinness - Project-Himalaya.com. FJR just texted me saying there’s an article in the Irish Times today about a guy walking off Everest to ABC (Advanced Base Camp) after being left for dead 23hrs earlier. You’ll get the full story from the community directly on [...] Read More »