Tom Coosemans

Tom Coosemans is framed in A Day at the Office as part of a lifelong trio — with Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll and Vincent Flore — who choose a riverborne approach to a classic granite wall. The film documents a rafting expedition down the Nahanni River in northern Canada that culminates at the Lotus Flower Tower, treating paddling, camps and climbing as a single continuous undertaking. Coosemans’s climbing shows up amid expeditionary logistics: portaging, setting bivouacs, and then shifting attention to multi-pitch, trad-style climbing on a remote big wall.

Because the approach is as important as the objective, the film gives viewers a sense of how Coosemans moves between disciplines. He is shown working in a team where river skills, route-finding and big-wall technique are all necessary; the camera balances scenes of upstream travel and camp life with sequences on the granite. That blend makes Coosemans’s performance useful for anyone interested in climbing that sits at the intersection of adventure travel and sustained, technical big-wall objectives.