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The Earful Tower: Paris

I climbed Notre Dame in Paris: Join me for the full experience

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8796 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I did it! I climbed the south tower of the Notre Dame cathedral and it was every bit as wonderful as I had dreamed. 

I brought the microphone up there with me, join me for the full experience. 

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Music by Pres Maxson.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, Oliver G here and I am very excited because I just looked out the window on my house in Paris,

0:08.3

saw a very blue sky on a winter's day and I thought, I'm going to climb the Notre Dame.

0:15.0

This is something I've wanted to do for years.

0:18.5

I mean, not just like three or four years. I'm talking like 30 plus years. I've always

0:23.7

wanted to go to the top of this thing. And when I finally moved to Paris and finally started

0:27.3

thinking about it, what happened? It burned down. Now, after five or six years of renovation,

0:34.0

restoration, they've reopened it. Imagine my elation when I went online to see if there

0:40.6

were any tickets available for right now and there were four left. So I bought two. Me and my

0:47.1

wife Lena are going to walk there right now. I'm going to go up for the first time ever.

0:51.2

I'm going to bring the microphone. Maybe we'll meet some characters up there.

0:59.1

Maybe we'll just talk about who knows what's going to happen. But I'm on the way to the top of the Notre Dame. And it only costs 16 euros each. This could be a life-changing experience. Let's

1:05.2

get out there and see what it's like. Come on. All right, that music was Notre Dame, the song itself by the great Edith Piaf,

1:37.5

reimagined by Press Maxen, and I'm recording this standing right out the front of Notre Dame Cathedral, and it's a beautiful day. I can't even

1:47.2

fathom how I got so lucky to have such a blue sky day. On the walk over here, I researched what's going on

1:52.8

and apparently there's a new, they're calling it a new tour. So going up here now, if you're done in

1:57.4

the past, it's different. It's going to be different. They've tried to integrate a whole lot of different things,

2:19.5

sort of sounds and new sculptures, and you get up close and personal with different gargoyles and chimeras and so on, apparently. I don't know much more than that, but I'm looking up at it. It looks like the perfect day to do it. I'm excited to see Paris as well, Most of all maybe, this viewpoint from 69 meters in the air.

2:21.9

I think it's time to show my ticket and going.

2:39.0

So there's this double oak staircase and it's totally new. like it's so cool to see this uh recently built whoa whoa whoa oh oliver just chill out for a second don't get all excited about a staircase and

2:45.6

try and say the facts why you're going up this is oliver from future, just adding a few figures after the experience.

2:53.1

So we're going up the South Tower here, right? And the staircase itself, I said it's double

2:58.8

oak. Let's get the specifics here. It's a double helix staircase. It's not just that

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