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Apple PodcastsOn Episode 303 of the Enormocast I sit down with one of the most compelling and somewhat enigmatic climbers of our times: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll. It was a multi-year dance, but we finally sat down puss-a-puss in the Canadian Rockies at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Sean is known for his big wall antics across the globe, often in the company of his broer van een andere moeder, Nico Favresse. But that bright and shiny sense of humor belies the fire and climbing beast that Sean can muster when the going gets tough, cold, and seemingly insurmountable. We discuss his Belgian, Irish, Spanish multi-cultural background and what his Irish roots in particular mean to him. Sean also fills us in on his beginnings, partnerships, forced COVID retreat in El Chaltén, Greenland, sea sickness, meditation, philosophy and more. And of course, I didn’t unlash him from his seat until we got some Irish tin whistle. I mean, come on!
Riders on the Storm and Reel Rock 19
Sean’s mentee Siebe Vanhee on the Enormocast
Wide Boy plus Sean in Patagonia
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Have you noticed how you never see ‘Sean’ and Billy Gibbons in the same place at the same time? Something’s clearly going on. I reckon the whole business of being the flute guy and leaving all the stuff with the banjos to Nico is just part of the disguise. Rock’n’roll – Sharp Dressed Man!
A most excellent podcast. Any way we can get our hands on Sean’s recommended reading book list?
Cheers. I’ll ask, but dude is very hard to get a hold of. No cell phone. Avoids social media as best he can. Email is quiet.
Thanks for trying Chris :). Much appreciation for connecting us regular folks to the minds of legends.
He came through!
Zen in The art of archery by Eugen Herrigel
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Power of now by Eckhart Tolle
Think Again by Adam Grant
The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey