The fastest climbing trend in Paris...
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Meet Daniel Christensen, an avid boulderer in Paris.
He talks of how the trend of climbing - aka bouldering - is captivating people's attention in Paris, and how the worldwide sport actually started near Paris in Fontainebleau.
Even if you're not a climber, this makes for an interesting chat about Paris and how sports/hobbies/pastimes are changing. There's even a climbing hall INSIDE a church!
Find out more about Daniel on his Instagram page here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is the Eval Tau podcast. My name is Oliver G. And I think it's fair to say |
| 0:05.6 | that I usually have my finger on the pulse of the trends in Paris. And today's subject is no |
| 0:13.4 | exception. In fact, I have my chalked fingers on the pulse, on the very pulse of this trend, |
| 0:20.2 | which is climbing, bouldering, rock climbing. |
| 0:22.6 | It seems to be taking over Paris. |
| 0:24.5 | There's a lot of history involved with the city of Paris and its sort of surroundings. |
| 0:30.4 | And I figured it's a topic that's a bit different, and we should get into it today with none other than my special guest, Daniel Christensen. |
| 0:37.3 | How are you doing? |
| 0:37.9 | I'm good things. How are you? I'm really good. And I'm pretty sure after seven or eight |
| 0:43.7 | years of this podcast, you're the first day and I've had on. Oh, wow. Is that, uh, oh, it's also |
| 0:47.7 | your first podcast. It's my third podcast. So this is an exciting time. First of something, yeah. is exciting times before we get into anything i think we should set the scene uh you work in a cafe |
| 0:56.5 | near this studio i do cafe character okay that's like one of these new age cool coffee shops it is |
| 1:03.5 | indeed what kind of customers are you bringing in there uh it's anyone it's tourists and it's locals |
| 1:07.6 | there it's people who really enjoy good coffee and yourself. Yeah. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah. And you being a coffee guy and a bouldering guy, does that make, I hate to say hipster, |
| 1:19.2 | but is that like a hipster kind of thing? Yeah, it seems a bit like it. Is it like a modern hipster? |
| 1:23.0 | Like a 2024 hipster? Yeah, I don't think I want to be, but I guess I am. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:33.4 | The way I remember how we met is I came in for a coffee one day and you made a flat white, |
| 1:34.0 | which was delicious. |
| 1:40.2 | I picked it up and you said, by God, look at your grip on that cup. |
| 1:42.3 | You must be a rock climber. |
| 1:42.9 | Is that what happened? |
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