A little scare. While on vacation in La Réunion, Marc Lièvremont, former coach of the French national rugby team, took the opportunity to take a paragliding flight to admire the splendors of the island. “the intense island this Monday.

While the overflight went well, the landing was more complicated. According to the gendarmes on Reunion Island, who rescued the current Canal + rugby consultant, he was “in a bad position on a rampart”. of a cliff and lived “strong emotions”.

The press release from the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon, which helped him out of this precarious equilibrium, states that “Marc Lièvremont unwillingly became a spectator of the alpine techniques deployed by the PGHM soldiers to rescue him. After much effort and strong emotions, the rescuers and Marc Lièvremont happily posed to immortalize the rescue.”.

“It’s exceptional to be here, alive. I hardly have anything, just a few scratches.”

Interviewed by Le Parisienthe former rugby player recounted his misadventure. “I swung into a vertiginous cliff but stayed too close to the wall. The glider caught on a tree, tore and I found myself perched above the void, 500 meters above the ground. I was clinging to a small branch at the top of a twenty-meter-high tree, powerless to do anything. (…) I stayed like that for nearly three hours. The gendarmerie arrived by helicopter, but I couldn’t be hoisted because I was too close to the wall. Two policemen rappelled down, reassured me and we climbed back up.”

Marc Lièvremont admits to having had the fright of his life. “It’s exceptional to be here, alive. I hardly have anything, just a few scratches.” A fright for a resolution for this regular paraglider. “I was really lucky and you can’t play with that. I burned a joker and I might not get two (…) I’m not sure I’ll ever do it again.”