Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Shane Ohly has set a new winter record for the ramsay round in 29hrs and 59mins and 34seconds. To date there have been only 45 successful finishers of the ramsay round. Charlie Ramsay was the first person to complete the round in 1978 in a time of 23hrs and 58 min[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I spotted a story about the ownership of Rockall on RTE news tonight. I’d never even heard of it, but the photos excited me. As I dug deeper, the story got better and better. Rockall – The most isolated speck of Rock, surrounded by Water on the Surfac[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This is pretty bizarre place in Siberia hadn’t been open to westerners until recently, yet locals have been climbing there over 150yrs. Local techniques have developed such as head first descending and large groups using each others limbs as holds and ledges. It&[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - All Climbing Blog alerted me to the video featured on UKClimbing of Rob Lamey on the first ascent of The Heel Hook Look 25m F8a, a deep water solo on Little Orme. The Heel Hook Look climbs across the obvious right-to-left rising break on Craig y Don Lower, Great Orme[...] 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 »