Climbing in Venezuela

The films from Venezuela on this site focus on a single, extreme wall: Amuri Tepui. Venezuela Jungle Jam follows four climber‑musicians—Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nicolas Favresse, Stephane Hanssens and Jean‑Louis Wertz—as they spend more than ten days hanging on a 500‑meter, fully overhanging face deep in the jungle searching for a line to the summit.

What distinguishes this record is how it pairs serious big‑wall climbing with the chaos of a remote tropical approach: long jungle hauls, heavy portaledge bivouacs, huge waterfall noise and the kind of improvised moments—concerts off the wall, big falls and hard onsight attempts—that only come from sustained commitment in an unforgiving environment. The filmmakers are part of the climbing party, so the footage privileges candid team dynamics and the nuts‑and‑bolts of working a long, overhanging route in damp, vegetal conditions. If you want a document of how hard, playful, and logistically demanding a tropical tepui assault can be, this film records the mixture directly.