10:50am Gear Review: Never Summer Eclipse 47 Inch Longboard
This top of the line classic pintail design, updated to the current generation, has some of the latest state-of-the-art features and killer graphic to boot. This is the creme de la creme of longboards from the company that knows what the people want. Review of Never Summer Eclipse 47″ Longbo[...] Read More »
11:16am Friday Links: Wheels, Solar Power, Arctic Space Travel, High Heel Fins, Engine Powered Kayaking,
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here’s your weekly dose of adventure links I’ve collected from around the internet. — Polar Madness grips scientists! New Research possibilities for space travel. — Solar Powered Beard Trimmer / Shaver. Good for extended basecamp sessions. —[...] Read More »
9:57am Jetpack Flights for Sale
 ÖREBRO, SWEDEN (Team Geared Up) - The future has arrived! Forget waiting in traffic in the mornings, jet-packs have become a reality once again. (Altho they have made apparences before) For the low price of $250,000 you can have a go for a 3 minute ride ($1,388/sec) but free train[...] Read More »
6:32pm The Ultra Runners Toenail Necklace
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s rare we put the words infront of the photo, but this time we felt it worth warning this isn’t for the faint hearted among you. This necklace of toenails was assembled by ultrarunner Jan Ryerse. He collected fallen body parts after the Badwater, Western [...] Read More »
12:08pm The Barkley Marathon
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - This Barkley Marathon has been running for over 20 yrs and in that time only 6 people have ever finished the full 100 miles. Mark Williams of the UK was the first person ever to finish in 1995 in a time of 59:28. The current record is held by Cave Dog (Ted Keizer[...] Read More »
10:39am All the 4,000ers in a Winter Season
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Miha Valic of Slovenia climbed all of the alps 82 4,000m peaks this recent winter. His target was to complete the challenge in 82 days during the calender winter but delays due to weather meant he finished his final peak, Les Droites, on April 7th. He began his qu[...] Read More »
10:10am 4lbs of Plutonium On Nanda Devi
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Now this is crazy. At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped fr[...] Read More »
4:18pm Mafikeng Assault Course 2007
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Below are some photos of EC2K7 from the weekend… Me Crawling Through Crooked Tunnel Eoin Lead Climbing Tree Video from the Mafikeng Assault Course 2007, that we created… Here’s a list of the obstacles: - THE COUNTRYSIDE - 200m looped run to start to[...] Read More »

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