Climbing in Mount Asgard

Mount Asgard’s twin flat‑topped, cylindrical rock towers, separated by a saddle, are a distinctive feature of Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island’s Cumberland Peninsula, and the film here uses that fortress‑like form as its organising image. Asgard Jamming, directed by and starring Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, records an expedition that spent long days travelling — the record notes 45 days out and 600 kilometres covered on foot — before committing about 11 days to climbing on the wall itself.

The movie leans into the scale of the approach as much as the climbing: walkers, hauls, and camps become part of the narrative of the ascent. Joining Villanueva O'Driscoll are Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Stephane Hanssens and Silvia Vidal, and the film reflects a deliberate, self‑shot Belgian expedition tradition — unhurried, musically arranged and attentive to the everyday work of getting to and living on a remote big wall. The result is an account of how extended travel on Baffin Island and committed, multi‑day wall time dovetail into a single expedition story.