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Présenté par Gérard Fougerouse

Gérard Fougerouse « If I wasn't in this wheelchair, I would already be dead » , claims Gérard, the daredevil who lost the use of his legs at 17 years old. A skiing accident can over turn a young person's life and put a curb on his ambitions. The initial feeling of revolt having passed Gérard chose to live in spite of everything and fight the tragedy with his smile and his good humour.The world was his to be conquered...

Small Curriculum vitae of Gerard Fougerouse

· 1969  G.Fougerouse find himself in a wheelchair after a skiing accident !

· 1972  After 3 years of re-education he walks with a stick.

· December 1972  Car accident ! Return to the wheelchair...

· 1975  3 years of re-education to awhwardly walk with two crutches

· 1979  Third accident: fall in the staircase, one crutch slipped...

· A definitive goodbye to stand up position! Back again to the wheelchair!

· 2005  More than 35 years of handicap, time is passing…

· Between 1987 and 1991 he wrote four books with John Morgane : " The man from Manaos ", " The mystery of the forgotten City ", Pacific Blue ", and " Angie " ; édition Shere Khan.

· In 1990, he left for his first trip to Brazil with John Morgane, himself also in wheelchair.

· In 1992, he left alone for a world tour lasting 6 months on his own. He published o book feeling about this trip " The trip around the world in a wheelchair ".

· In January 1993, he left for Madagascar for humanitarian reasons and distributed medicines to health centers.

· From August to October 1993, Gérard Fougerouse crossed the USA from Florida to California. He made a film available in a videocassette and published a boob ; édition Olizane : " The USA in a wheelchair ".

· In 1994, the year of Perou. He was off again to produce a film, available in videocassette on this new long journey, and also a book whose concept is being completed.

· The first quarter of 1995 was the time for a new trip to Viet Nam, dedicated to the Mandarin's Road : Saïgon, Da Nang, Hué and back to the Delta of Mekong, involving the shooting of a new film ; two videocassettes of 52 minutes each.

· In 1996, the publication of another videofilm " The trip around the world in a wheelchair " as well as a report on a woman in Saïgon who is struggling to bring up 80 children in 28 m².

· In 1997, on the tracks of Christopher COLOMB, he travelled through ex Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic and made a film on videocassette " The Dominican Republic in a wheelchair ".

· 1998, in January, Gerard left for Cuba, produced a film and carried 20 kilos of medicines in his luggage which he distributed during this trip.

· 1999, again in January - February on a new trip towards the sun, Mexico, a film produced on videocassette... and new friends crazy about ULM ( ultra light motorized aircraft ), the aviation the simplest and purist permitting film shooting and involving the most extraordinary feelings of lightness and pleasure. 

· 2000, Morocco, 1er MEHARI CITROEN, across the atlas, the desert and the great south vistas... A film has been made recounting this adventure.

· 2001, Thailand, from Bangkok til the Golden triangle, border of Thailand, Laos and Burma; further on south to Phukett, a new film show you Thailand of today.

· 2001 in June, direction down South, the Sahara in a Mehari Citroen! A crazy lond distance rally with cars not really made for that and 65°C, as a travelling companion... A film in a very high temperature, extremely interesting.

· 2002 in January Ivory Coast ! Gérard produced a new movie from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro and near the border of "Burkina" with a un 4x4 NISSAN PATROL 

· 2003 The Togo  a little country very interresting and a travel to Accra in Ghana and a final in Abidjan for a new movie.

· 2004 Madagascar a travel in a country where the aventure is always present.

· 2005 The Sénégal and the Gambia. A travel very interresting but with many problèmes by the way…

· 2006 The Laos, Luang Prabang and her Temples...The Mékong …

· 2007  South Africa and Zambia… The Big Fives… Victoria Falls