Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Yeh, my knee doesn’t do that either. An amazing, photo sequence pointed to by The Mountain World blog. You can see the entire sequence here. 17yr old Pete Whittaker with mother and father on belay duty, and sister Katy watching on has created a stunning set of pho[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Deep Water Soloing World’s blog, having been very quiet for a while, has a post up detailing the forthcoming festivals this year. the most unusual? A soloing festival above a lake on a manufactured wall! I’ve heard it all now :) Still though, having se[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - It seems Joe Simpson, writer of Touching the Void (the amazing story of his survival of crawling for three days on his own off a mountain after breaking a leg), has been busy making a documentary movie on the epic story of the dramtic attempt to climb the Eiger[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Rumour reached us last night via Stephen (DCU Rock Climbing Club) that Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame is to undertake a new stunt infront of a live audience at the MPH ‘07 show. [Jeremy Clarkson] will be racing a rock climber up a 40-foot tall, man-made mou[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - A bit late but Irish climber Dave Ayton, currently pushing hard on sports routes, has ticked his 2nd 8a/5.13b. The route, ‘Highway’ at the crag Dinbren in North Wales, involving crimps - lots of crimps and monos, seems to have been a pretty quick as[...] Read More »

UPDATE: Thanks to Charlie for plotting g-maps for our route on Saturday night (15km), and Sunday in Richmond Park (8.2km). LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - TGU did it! We finished (just with a few technical mishaps) the London 2007 Rat Race. The Rat Race is an urban adventure race, taking all the acti[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Despite the bike brakes failing through a pedestrian crossing and one of us putting a scratch down the side of a car with the handle bars, things went better than expected. The blinding reflective t-shirts of TeamGearedUp.com were out roughing themselves up a little bi[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Great River Race paddled past my flat on the Thames today. The annual river race lets competitors race down the Thames for 4hrs to Greenwich. Racers use any form of canoe, dragon boat, kayak, paddle boat, skiff they want… and many seem to dress up in costume [...] Read More »