Visit the Patagonia’ Tin Shed and check out the video Nico and Sean shot during their free ascent of the south African route in Patagonia. Here is the way to find the video: when you get in the shed, turn right and click on the gear… Enjoy!

Ok, yesterday’s news was an april fools´day joke… Belgian tradition… Nico and Sean are like an old married couple, they can’t be separeted… 
Let’s get back on business now. Nico and Sean are back from Patagonia and should take one or two rest days in Belgium before they start training for their next expedition in Canada. [...]

After many years of adventure and climbing all over the world, Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva just decided to end their collaboration!
Some tensions during their last expedition in Patagonia seem to be  the cause of this sad separation. This is a very bad news for the worlwide climbing community since Nico and Sean became an [...]

Rough times: A friend of ours died. Chino, an Argentinean climber, died from hypothermia after an attempt on Poincenot. Sean had met Chino here in Chalten two years ago, traveled with him for a couple of weeks, and stayed at his house in Buenos Aires. We met up with him again when we arrived in [...]

Our base camp in Torre valley being at a six hour walk from El Chalten, we decided to only bring up the bare essentials: a little food, some rock climbing gear, the mandolin, the banjo, the flute and our newest addition to our musical quiver: a trumpet. While waiting at a bus stop a week [...]

After the South African route we stayed in Torres Del Paine for another week hoping to do some more climbing there, but the weather was extremely bad. So we decided to move to El Chalten, home of Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. On previous pilgrimages we had done some attempts on the east face of [...]

Unfortunately we found a lot of old fixed ropes left behind by previous expeditions on the east face (not just on the south African route) and we brought down as much as we could (a few hundred meters of ropes) . It’s a pity climbers trashed the wall like this. Most of the ropes we [...]

The south African route has some amazing free climbing pitches. Mostly following clean cracks and dihedrals in super compact granite. It felt like a privilege for us to be climbing them. Some of the harder pitches include a very pumpy fingertip enduro corner, and also an amazing face climbing boulder problem with a spectacular sequence [...]

Out of the 13 days we spent on the wall, only 2 days were spent totally locked up in our portaledges because of bad weather. No good weather days either but other days we could always at least get one pitch in. So you can imagine we were hoping to get more portaledge surfing and [...]

As you can imagine a big wall ascent of this magnitude is not all fun and games. A lot of ups and down, hard work and excruciating pain. Speaking about “fun and games”: South-Africa lost against Chili in a football game last night. Do you know the difference between football and rock climbing? For football [...]