19 March 2010 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 5 Comments
“Asgard Jamming” DVD is now available for sale worldwide!
The movie follows Nico, Sean, Oli, Steph and Silvia on a rock climbing expedition in Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.
Mentored by Freyr, the viking god of weather and fertility, these warriors ventured on a quest to enter the fortress of the gods (Asgard) without the use [...]
28 December 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | No Comments yet
“Wednesday night, Europe Palace, MENDI, the second projection of the session does that the public enjoying a lot, many laughs and enclosedly plaudits in the course of the projection, but the credits appear, it’s ending, … with live music! Nico and Sean jump to the stage mandolin in hand and harmonica in mouth to finish [...]
24 October 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 16 Comments
A little taste of what you’ll see during the Asgard Jamming Tour…
21 October 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | No Comments yet
This year was an unusual warm season… shit was falling down constantly, truck size boulders!
The approach to the base of the Bavarian route on the South tower of Asgard consisted of a 300m steep Icy couloir.
A giant hanging glacier lured over the last section.
With heavy loads and not that much sleep, we tackled the approach [...]
5 October 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | No Comments yet
“A plane! An airplane!!” Stephane shouted. I looked up: nothing to be seen. I could hear the rumbling of a motor, but I couldn’t spot any plane. “No! not up there,” Stephane said “down below!!”. It was our 11th day on the wall, and I was in the middle of redpointing a hard pitch. We [...]
18 September 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 2 Comments
There were five of us on the wall, but only 2 portaledges. Luckily we had a hammock for the the fifth person. Every day we did rock, paper, sizers to see who was sleeping in the hammock. It was a nightmare to get in to your sleeping-bag and get comfortably installed. Once you were in [...]
11 September 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 2 Comments
Oh yeah some bad news guys!! It’s the end of the world! Women can pee standing up!! I swear it! We’ve seen Silvia do it! The only consolation to us men, is that she needs aid (some kind of tube) (yes even for peeing she needs artificial aid!)Who is Silvia Vidal? A climber form Spain, [...]
10 September 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 2 Comments
After a few days of ferrying loads we quickly decided to take a quick break of all the walking by doing some climbing. We split in to two teams: the Favresse brothers spotted an unclimbed unnamed beautiful red spire at the base of Mount Odin, Stephane and Sean decided to try the unclimbed wall of [...]
29 August 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 1 Comment
When we landed in Baffin island, part of the ocean was still under ice and stepping out of the plane was like entering a fridge! After 24 hours of reorganizing our gear, buying our last fruits and vegetables, and filling up on fat, we set off on a boat direction the beginning of the Weasel valley. [...]
26 August 2009 by admin | Expedition: Baffin 2009 | 1 Comment
You are probably wondering about the previous post picture with Sean and the bear… Well we were really hungry and already running out of food. One of us had to go full commitment, take it for the team. As you might have heard Inuit often fight with bear the catch of Seals. Here it was [...]