Alberto Ginés (Cáceres, 2002) hangs from a wall with one hand and waits for his photo to be taken. His life is spent hanging from the walls. In 2021, he surprised everyone by becoming the first Olympic climbing champion in history at the Tokyo Olympic Games, when the sport was just making its debut on the Olympic calendar and few people knew who this 18-year-old from Extremadura was. The athlete has been living in Catalonia for years because he wanted to train at the Sant Cugat CAR (Car Park) in Catalonia. A different young man, he has learned Catalan and shows a curiosity for the world that goes beyond climbing walls. This summer, he read De Vigan, Dostoevsky, and Murakami, at the end of a season in which he won World Cup gold, although he narrowly missed out on a World Cup medal. By one move. By a centimeter.