“Wherever you are, you will have already climbed all the mountains.” With these words the daughter Sévérine greeted the father Denis Trento on the day of the funeral.
The ski mountaineering champion and mountain guide died on Friday in a mountain accident on Mount Paramont.
La Salle greets Denis Trento
A thousand people filled the church in every row La Salle.
Many uniforms: the athletes of the Army Sports Center, the Alpine troops, the mountain guides, the ski instructors, the young people of the Valdigne Mont Blanc ski club, civil and military authorities.
But also many ordinary people, friends. Everyone wanted to accompany me on my last journey Trent and rally around his wife Fabienne Chanoineto children Sévérine, Gregory And Gilbertto Mom Odette and dad Claudio.
Don Paolo Viganò: «You will forgive us if we dragged you to church»
«You will forgive us if we dragged you to church – said Don Paolo Viganò, at the beginning of the short ceremony -. We would have liked to greet you in the square, in the midst of your mountains, but the low clouds hid them. Your entire family is a sign of the good that continues to live. With you we want to look at that image that you sent to your wife, that trace that leads to heaven. Now it is our task to open a path to heaven for you.”
Daughter Sévérine: «You are so strong and courageous that they wanted you up there»
After the Alpine soldier’s prayer, the daughter’s words, entrusted to her aunt.
«Dear my dad, you are so strong and courageous that they also wanted you up there – wrote Sévérine -. You did what you liked until the last minute of your life. Wherever you are now, you will have already climbed all the mountains. We miss you already, but you’re here with us anyway. We love you and we will always love you.”
And if finding the words isn’t easy, the Modena City Ramblers will take care of it, to the tune of On a rainy day, song already played at his brother’s funeral Valeriowho passed away about twenty years ago.
«And on a rainy day I will see you again
And I will be able to console your wet eyes
On a rainy day we will be close
We will dance lightly on the air of a Reel”
That rain, ironically, fell incessantly today, a La Salleto accompany the champion’s last journey.
Patrick Farcoz: «The trace left in the Army was indelible»
The commander of the Army Sports Center of Courmayeur Patrick Farcoz he recalled the sporting results and mountaineering exploits of Trento, who he remembered as «a person who earned my respect and that of the Army. He demonstrated passion and sincere attachment to his work. He had an introverted character, someone used to doing more than talking. Ironic and self-deprecating, determined, stubborn, always coherent. He left countless traces in the mountains, but the one in the army is indelible. He helped build a team of the highest level.”
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