What a complete shock.

Two years ago, a 20-year-old student at the University of Cambridge collapsed and died without any warning signs while hiking in southern France — and now her family is doing everything possible to prevent others from experiencing this same type of unexpected tragedy. 3

Clarissa Nicholls had arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy , or ACM, a rare heart condition that occurs when the heart muscle is replaced by both scar and fat. ACM caused the student’s heart to go into cardiac arrest.

Nicholls was described by her mother to the Times as a “supremely active, one of the fittest and healthiest and energetic girls you would have ever met,” so her passing was a complete shock to anyone who knew her.

The scary part is that she didn’t have any symptoms and with routine

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