The comedian Ahmed Sylla leaves Tuesday evening to explore the French Pyrenees, in the France 2 program "Our unknown lands".
Invited on the very day of "Culture Médias", he explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone how he had to fight against his fears of a city dweller unaccustomed to the wild nature of the mountains.
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He says it himself, his body is made "to stay on the sofa".
The comedian Ahmed Sylla has yet gone on an adventure, in the number of the show of France 2
Our unknown lands
broadcast Tuesday evening.
Very happy to have gone to France, and not to the other side of the world, the city dweller tells the same day in
Culture Médias about
his grueling week of immersion in the wild nature of the Pyrenees, between Béarn and the Country Basque, but also the beautiful encounters he made thanks to this program.
>> Find Philippe Vandel and Culture-Médias every day from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Europe 1 as well as in replay and podcast here
From his first night of travel, Ahmed Sylla finds himself forced to camp in the forest.
Quite a test for the naturally rather timid humorist.
"We do not bivouac in a wood, finally!", Laughs Ahmed Sylla on Europe 1. "I was fed on horror films where the car breaks down in the middle of the forest!"
For him, therefore, the place is not exactly synonymous with stroll and relaxation.
"I couldn't feel my legs anymore"
The presenter of
Our Unknown Lands
Raphaël de Casabianca also takes Ahmed Sylla on a paragliding tour.
A first for the comedian, who hesitated a lot before taking the plunge.
"If I am offered to go paragliding tomorrow, I say no. I'm not going. But I was happy to overcome my fear," he explains, remembering that he almost fell. in apples before flying away.
"I couldn't feel my legs anymore."
If he finally flew over the valleys of the Pyrenees with a big smile, it was in front of the bath in the lake that Ahmed Sylla retreated.
"Because it's cold!", He laughs at the microphone of Philippe Vandel, saluting the courage of Raphaël de Casabianca, who therefore bathed alone.
"He's going, like a man. Not me."
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But it is the meetings with the inhabitants of the mountain that Ahmed Sylla most appreciated in his television immersion.
"You can take me wherever you want. As long as there are passionate people, I'll have a good time," he says.
The comedian thus remained in contact with certain people he met during the filming.
"I spoke last night with Iban, one of the sons of the winegrowers," he explains.
"This is also the little extra of doing this program in France: there is no language barrier and we can stay in touch."
The Pyrenean adventures of Ahmed Sylla in
Our unknown lands
are to be discovered Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. on France 2.