Belgian climber Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll has been willingly stuck in Patagonia since Covid-19 kicked off, and making the most of it: jaws dropped around the climbing world when he became the first to solo the Fitz Roy Traverse late last week. This epic route, fantasised about by anyone who has ever seen a photo of the jagged skyline above El Chalten, was first completed by the dream simul-climbing team of Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell in 2014. The route traverses the iconic Cerro Fitz Roy and its six satellite peaks: 5km of ridge line with around 4000m of vertical gain. Read more »
Operating from ocean-going yachts, Ben Ditto, Nico and Olivier Favresse, and Sean Villenueva on the west coast, and Harald Fichtinder and Ralph Villiger on the east, have climbed important new routes on Greenland's inshore peaks and sea cliffs. Read more »
With expedition grants from the BMC, the Alpine Club, Welsh Sports Association, and Gino Watkins Memorial Fund, Lee Roberts, Dave Rudkin and Olly Sanders completed a new 800m rock route at E5 6b C1 on the northwest coast of Greenland. Read more »
Travelling aboard the yacht Dodo's Delight, skippered by Bob Shepton, a South African team has put up big new rock routes alongside those of the American-Belgian team awarded a Piolet d'Or in 2011 for its Greenland ascents. Read more »
In the on-going saga of the Favresse brothers' expedition to Greenland aboard Bob Shepton's 10m yacht Dodo's Delight, the team has put up several more adventurous rock routes in the Cape Farewell region. Read more »
Ben Ditto, Nico and Oliver Favresse, and Sean Villanueva have created two more major rock routes during their on-going trip to Greenland's West Coast. They are travelling aboard Bob Shepton's 10m yacht Dodo's Delight. Read more »
The Belgian brothers Nico and Olivier Favresse, with fellow countryman Sean Villanueva and American climber and photographer Ben Ditto, have climbed the first of what they hope will be a raft of new routes on the little visited rock walls of Greenland's West Coast. Read more »
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