Unlikely surfing session in the catacombs!


Surfer Alison Teal - a kind of Indiana Jones woman - had a very strange and terrifying experience on October 13, 2016. She illegally entered the Paris catacombs for a surf session in a bikini and pink board among the bones!

American surfer and adventurer Alison Teal travels the world with her surfboard under her arm. The goal? Make videos under the name"Alison's adventures" and share the recipes of happiness and survival of an individual she meets in each country. All with humour and intrepidity!

Defining herself as an Indiana Jones, she defends diverse and varied causes (surfing, survival, solidarity and storytelling) with her pink ecological surfboard. We have already seen it engage against plastic pollution or surf near an erupting volcano.

So it is in Paris that she has returned for a new adventure, which makes sense on this Halloween day. The 30-year-old surfer became the first person to explore the Parisian catacombs while surfing. After walking through a 300 km labyrinth of tunnels filled with bones and four-legged passages more than 30 m underground, she posed on her pink board, herself dressed in her pink bikini.

Of course, it is without authorization that the pretty blonde made this little film. To find water and surf, Alison had to go down to 3 e catacomb level. The exit from the catacombs turned out to be more complicated than expected since the young woman and her guides had to advance in the frozen water, the level of which had risen, for a short while before being able to find a tunnel bringing them back into the Parisian streets.

But behind the fun of the staging hides a "top secret mission" as the surfer on your Instagram account explains, that she "will reveal in a few weeks."

While in the capital, Alison also took the opportunity to surf the Seine, against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. She also took a break in front of the pyramid of the Louvre or on a Parisian Carrousel.

As a reminder, the catacombs are old quarries which shelter the bones of the Cemetery of the Innocents (which had become a source of infection and was closed in 1785). They also received the bones of all the Parisian cemeteries until 1814.

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