Climbing in Cape Farewell

Cape Farewell is shown in a sailing‑and‑climbing narrative where the shoreline and sea are as central as the rock. Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll’s Vertical Sailing Greenland follows a Belgians‑led crew — including Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Ben Ditto and Sean himself — sailing from Upernavik down the coast to Cape Farewell, negotiating icebergs and cramped conditions to reach the wall they call the Impossible Wall.

The film treats the area as a granite fjord to be lived in for a season: hauling systems and cold rock are framed alongside the practicalities of a small boat, instruments coming out when weather closes in, and the rhythms of expedition life under a captain like Bob Shepton. For viewers, Cape Farewell is both a remote climbing objective and a setting that shapes choices — route selection, timing and the logistics of working big walls on a cold, iceberg‑strewn coast — all captured with documentary honesty.