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Enormocast 303: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll – A Very Particular Set of Skills

Enormocast 303: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll – A Very Particular Set of Skills

Update: 2025-04-042
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On Episode 303 of the Enormocast I sit down with one of the most compelling and somewhat enigmatic climbers of our times: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll. It was a multi-year dance, but we finally sat down puss-a-puss in the Canadian Rockies at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Sean is known for his big wall antics across the globe, often in the company of his broer van een andere moeder, Nico Favresse. But that bright and shiny sense of humor belies the fire and climbing beast that Sean can muster when the going gets tough, cold, and seemingly insurmountable. We discuss his Belgian, Irish, Spanish multi-cultural background and what his Irish roots in particular mean to him. Sean also fills us in on his beginnings, partnerships, forced COVID retreat in El Chaltén, Greenland, sea sickness, meditation, philosophy and more. And of course, I didn’t unlash him from his seat until we got some Irish tin whistle. I mean, come on!







Riders on the Storm and Reel Rock 19







Sean’s mentee Siebe Vanhee on the Enormocast







Wide Boy plus Sean in Patagonia








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Enormocast 303: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll – A Very Particular Set of Skills

Enormocast 303: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll – A Very Particular Set of Skills

Chris Kalous