Excluded. Colette (Beijing Express) still under "treatment" after his health glitch? His answer

The first episode the seventeenth season of Beijing Express was colorful. The Marseilles aunt and niece had a great scare on the heights of Bolivia. Colette has indeed been a victim of mountain sickness. Six months after the shooting of the show, she gives us her news.

The start of the seventeenth season of Beijing Express was given this Thursday, February 16 by Stephane Rotenberg. The emblematic presenter surrounds himself with eight new pairs of candidates, from France and Belgium. The first stage was in La Paz, Bolivia and caused some trouble for some adventurers. After diving (and floating with his down jacket, for Alexandre!) in Lake Titicaca, the backpackers had to defrost an ice cube with their bare hands to find the address of the meeting point for the first day. The next day, it’s more than 4,200 meters above sea level that the duos had to hitchhike again. One of them was particularly affected.

“We thought that health problems came after…“

Colette was a victim of altitude sickness. Unable to breathe, the Marseillaise was urgently escorted into the race doctor’s truck to receive oxygen. Noting that her aunt was on respiratory assistance, Léa remained optimistic, as she told us in an interview: “We didn’t give up and unfortunately, at the time and it may be silly, but we said to ourselves that we had to move on and that health problems came after“, assures the 22-year-old young woman. The treatment given by the practitioner has allowed the fifty-year-old to get up, although she does not “was not in good shape“. However, the tandem has accumulated too considerable a delay to be immunized.

“I couldn’t watch my aunt slowly die during the ordeal“

The young nurse faced Nathalie from the pair of unknowns in the final duel. Unlucky on the way back, Léa and Colette were finally eliminated. An evil for a good because “health must come first”. “We could not continue in these conditions, I couldn’t watch my aunt slowly die during the ordeal. To see her hurt like that, it made us realize that it was not really possible to surpass ourselves as much as we wanted“, notes the youngest. And to reveal: “Then the doctors of the production were confident, at the start, in relation to the state of health of Colette. Afterwards, there are other events which will probably be at very high altitude, so we didn’t really know if we could stay for the rest of the adventure. The elimination fell very well in the end“, she notes six months after the shooting. The 54-year-old woman tells us that she has no sequelae related to her misadventure. “I’m much better, everything is fine“, says the bubbly southerner. We are reassured!