Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ lunch again. Here’s the stuff we didn’t get to talk about this week. — I’m fully expecting Tango & Cash to have these new underglow lights on their Mountain Bikes at the next event. Boys, go for blue ones, way cooler. — GoBlo[...] Read More »

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 »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Couple of links to keep you entertained. Washington Post have a good Antarctica website all about The Dry Desert. Nice photos. The Gear Junkie features the Hero 3 digital camera. Straps to your wrist. Looks great but poor res for 2007. My phone isn’t much bigger a[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Get Outdoors Blog are reporting Ines Papert, (previously featured in our Hot Girls with Ice Axes post when we saw her climbing at the Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival) has climbed “Law & Order” M13 (Mixed Route Graded 13). Ines Papert has repeated “L[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - The Adventure Blog has the story from “The Alpinist” magazine that 2 Scots have put up a new route “Shining Wall” on Mont Blanc in the Alps. In the above photo, it’s the 2nd from the right. The headwall is incredible looking, wouldn’t fa[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - I am debating with myself at the moment over whether to go for the La Sportiva Nepal Extreme or Nepal Evo boots. The only difference between the 2 mainly is that the Evo has a lining of gore-tex inside the boot and is slighty lighter. I havent been able to find any user re[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - These things always seem to come around all at once. This trip is to l’Argentière la Bessée from the 10th-14th of January for the Ecrin Ice Climbing Meet 2007. The closing date for this trip is Tuesday the 19th of December. I was around the a[...] Read More »