Bob Shepton

Bob Shepton appears in this catalog as the veteran captain who makes remote big‑wall objectives accessible by small boat. He is a central presence in Vertical Sailing Greenland and returns in The Adventures of the Dodo aboard the Dodo’s Delight, the ten‑metre sailboat that carries crews to unmapped granite.

In Vertical Sailing Greenland the film follows a route from Upernavik to Cape Farewell, with Shepton’s boat navigating ice and weather as the team chases a face they call the Impossible Wall. The Adventures of the Dodo reassembles the same crew — with Shepton then aged 79 — to push again into arctic waters, contend with polar bears and storms, and find virgin walls in Greenland and on Baffin Island. The recorded disciplines — big‑wall, trad and alpine within a documentary frame — highlight Shepton’s role as expedition enabler: his seamanship and the small‑boat platform are the logistical backbone for climbs, impromptu music sessions and the unglamorous reality of living and climbing in high latitudes.