#06 Fabi Christof

Being the son of a PE teacher, Fabian Christof has had the opportunity to try more or less any sport he could imagine. Team sports like football were frustrating for him, tennis - too slow for his temperamental character and the amounts of energy he needed to channel.

​The summer of ‘95 seemed to drag on for eternity. Fabian was 15 and felt like the summer holidays would never end. What pulled him out of the boredom was his first visit to a climbing wall with a friend. Fabi was “overweight and equipped with Mike Jordan shoes”. He got on the 6 metre top rope wall and gave it what he describes as a really unsuccessful attempt at climbing. For some reason, though, he was hooked. From that day on, he'd go climbing whenever possible - 7 days a week.

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