Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll is a professional climber and mountaineer born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in February 1981, to an Irish mother and a Spanish father. A polyglot, he speaks English, Dutch, French, and Spanish, and has established himself as one of the most original figures in contemporary mountaineering thanks to a style that is committed, inventive, and remarkably free. His reputation was built on major traverses and first ascents on big walls, notably in Patagonia, Gr…
