Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - An email arrived this afternoon “We have just launched a nationwide search to find three Irish challengers willing and ready to take part in the Powerade Never Give Up Alpine Marathon Challenge, a thrilling 42K mountain marathon race across The Swiss Alps in[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Apologies for lack of posts, it’s a case of life and ironman getting in the way of blogging…. :-( What have I missed?: Gael Force 6 seems to have been won by Eoin Keith followed by Peter O’ Farrell, while Peter seems to have teamed up with Paul Mah[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Ok, so this is part III (see part I Gran Paradiso and part II Castor). This should get you in the mood for the Summer that’s not far away! We left off in Gressoney la Trinite near the Swiss-Italian border having climbed a great route on Castor. Back in our little [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The entry requirements for the North Face Ultra Trail du Tour du Mont Blanc have just been announced. Up until now entry was first come, first served, until last year when you had to have completed at least a couple of ultras. But because the finisher level was stil[...] Read More »

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 »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The big thing stopping me from back country or off piece snowboarding is all the horror stories you hear about people getting in an avalanche and eventually suffocating if the force of colliding snow didn’t already kill them. True, methods of avalanche p[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK, (Team Geared Up) - This one wins all the prizes. Forget ascending Everest blind, as an amputee or even running the A-Z of Marathons, this is way cooler. Having tried to climb Mont Blanc myself (and getting white washed off in a snow storm) I have ultimate respect for them lobbing these [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - As I posted on TGU in 2005, after hearing Simon Anthamatten speak at the Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival about his 7 new lines on the Eiger North-face in one summer and seeing him climbing I was truly taken by him. Amazing character, although it helps if your ‘d[...] Read More »