Matteo Della Bordella

Matteo Della Bordella is an Italian mountaineer whose work includes participation in expedition-style alpine and Arctic objectives. His film appearances tend to place him within multi-person teams tackling remote big walls and mixed terrain rather than as a solo or competition-focused athlete.

In Coconut Connection (2017), Della Bordella joins a summer expedition to Baffin Island with Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nico Favresse, and others. The team skis across broken sea ice toward a valley crowded with north-facing granite, intent on free climbing but prepared for long, changeable Arctic conditions. The film reads less like a single-push summit chronicle and more like an extended record of life at the edge of the Arctic: weather, music, camp routines, and the social fabric of a small, committed group.

For a viewer, the piece is useful as an illustration of how ambitious climbing objectives can shift under Arctic realities—how objectives are set, deferred, and reframed when teams contend with sea ice, storms, and limited extraction options. Della Bordella’s role in the film helps show how an expeditionary alpinist balances technical climbing with patience, group logistics, and the non-climbing work that fills long Arctic expeditions.