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The Stroke - Mr Jean Troillet’s Story Jean Troillet, a mountaineer from the Valais region, suffered a stroke last autumn as he was climbing up an icy face in the Himalayas, and told us about the incident. “ Everything was going well, we were on the west face of Annapurna, on the Messner route ”, remembers the Valais adventurer, mountaineer and guide, Jean Troillet. “ We had climbed around 800 metres over very steep terrain, covered in snow and ice. There were around fifty left before we got to the little platform on which we…
The Stroke – Mrs Anne Lamon Albasini’s Story Having suffered from a stroke in France, Anne Lamon Albasini owes her recovery to extremely fast emergency care and to her unshakeable determination. “I was very lucky…” Anne Lamon Albasini, who suffered from a stroke last year while on holiday in France, often repeats this sentence. She was lucky, first of all, to have had a husband by her side who “ did all the right things ”. On that day, 13 July 2011, on a camping site in Toulon, she woke up around 7, and got up, before…