suspended above the void, 500 meters from the ground, Marc Lièvremont rescued by the gendarmes in Reunion

A little scare. On vacation in Reunion, the former coach of the XV of France, Marc Lièvremont, took the opportunity to take a paragliding flight to admire the splendors of “the intense island” this Monday.

If the flyover went well, the landing was more complicated. According to the gendarmes of Reunion, who rescued the current rugby consultant for Canal +, the latter was “in a bad position on a rampart” off a cliff and lived “strong emotions”.

The press release from the high mountain gendarmerie platoon, which helped him get out of this precarious balance, indicates that “Marc Lièvremont unwillingly became a spectator of the alpine techniques deployed by the PGHM soldiers to help him. After many efforts and strong emotions, it was with joy that the rescuers and Marc Lièvremont posed to immortalize this rescue..

“It’s exceptional to be here, alive. I have almost nothing, just a few scratches. »

Questioned by Le Parisien, the former rugby player recounted his misadventure. “I swung into a dizzying cliff but stayed too close to the wall. The sail got caught in a tree, tore and I found myself perched above the void, 500 meters above the ground. I was hanging on a small branch at the top of a twenty meter high tree without being able to do anything. (…) I stayed like that for almost three hours. The gendarmerie arrived by helicopter but I could not be airlifted because I was too close to the wall. Two gendarmes abseiled, reassured me and we climbed back up.”

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Marc Lièvremont admits to having been scared of his life. “It’s exceptional to be here, alive. I have practically nothing, just a few scratches.” A scare for a resolution for this paragliding regular. “I was really lucky and you shouldn’t play with that. I burned a joker and I might not get two. (…) I’m not sure I’ll ever do it again.”