Curated list
Expedition Big Wall Films
18 films · updated 2026-09-04
The big walls that are not in Yosemite: Greenland fjords reached by sailboat, granite towers on Baffin Island, the Tsaranoro massif in Madagascar, Venezuelan tepuis, Trango in the Karakoram. Expedition films are as much about getting there and staying alive as about the climbing.
Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll made a career of these trips, and their films, most of them free on Xpedition's channel, anchor this list.

01 · 2011 · 58 min · Xpedition Films
Vertical Sailing Greenland
Bob Shepton sails the Favresse brothers, Sean Villanueva and Ben Ditto to Greenland to climb new big walls from the deck.

02 · 2015 · 55 min · Xpedition Films
The Adventures of the Dodo
The same crew's second sailing expedition, with the same instruments and worse weather.

03 · 2026 · 55 min · Xpedition Films
Asgard Jamming
Mount Asgard on Baffin Island, with Silvia Vidal, Olivier Favresse and Stéphane Hanssens.

04 · 2013 · 54 min · Xpedition Films
China Jam
New routes on the granite towers of Kyzyl Asker in western China.

05 · 2026 · 58 min · Xpedition Films
Venezuela Jungle Jam
Big walls on the Amuri tepui in Venezuela, approached through jungle.

06 · 2017 · 38 min · Xpedition Films
Coconut Connection
Favresse and Villanueva with the Italian Ragni di Lecco on Baffin's Great Sail Peak.

07 · 2026 · 49 min · Xpedition Films
A Day at the Office
Sean Villanueva, Vincent Flore and Tom Coosemans on a big wall expedition in Canada.

08 · 2024 · 1 hr 34 min · National Geographic
Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold: Mega Episode
Honnold on Ingmikortilaq, a 4,000-foot Greenland sea cliff, with a glaciologist along for the science.

09 · 2025 · 33 min · Petzl
Making History on the Trango Towers, Pakistan - Edu Marin
Edu Marín and family on Eternal Flame on the Nameless Tower of Trango.

10 · 2016 · 16 min · Arc'teryx
Arc'teryx Presents: Baffin
Brette Harrington and Marc-André Leclerc on Baffin Island.

11 · 2008 · 48 min · WORK LESS CLIMB MORE FILMS
Tough Enough: Big Wall Climbing in Madagascar
Arnaud Petit and Steph Bodet on Tough Enough, the hard free big wall route on Tsaranoro.

12 · 2017 · 11 min · Petzl
MAD in Madagascar - Climbing with Sean Villanueva & Siebe Vanhee
Villanueva and Siebe Vanhee on the same massif for Petzl.

13 · 2026 · 24 min · Anna Hazelnutt
A Big Wall Story 🇲🇬 Anna Hazelnutt & Matilda Söderlund
Anna Hazelnutt and Matilda Söderlund in Madagascar.

14 · 2015 · 28 min · VICE Sports
Alex Honnold Climbs Angola
Honnold in Angola for VICE, on walls nobody had climbed.

15 · 2017 · 15 min · The North Face
Of Choss and Lions
Cedar Wright and Honnold on Mount Poi in Kenya.

16 · 2010 · 35 min · Mason Earle
Attempting to Free Climb a Patagonian Bigwall
Mason Earle, George Ullrich and Peter Rhodes trying to free a wall in Patagonia.

17 · 2026 · 27 min · Louder Than Eleven
Push the Lines - Three friends. One winter line. Years in the making.
A winter big wall line, years in the making.

18 · 2022 · 33 min · The North Face
The North Face Presents: Earthside
An alpine big wall expedition led by Brette Harrington and Emily Harrington.
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