{"id":38802,"date":"2012-12-11T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38802"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:27:31","slug":"british-snowboarder-suffocates-at-chamniox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38802","title":{"rendered":"British Snowboarder Suffocates At Chamonix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/article-2246314-1676033F000005DC-724_634x513.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/article-2246314-1676033F000005DC-724_634x513.jpg','popup','width=634,height=513,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/article-2246314-1676033F000005DC-724_634x513-tm.jpg\" height=\"161\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article-2246314-1676033F000005Dc-724 634X513\" \/><\/a><strong>Emily &#8220;Mimi&#8221; Watts<\/strong>, a 26-year-old British snowboarder (pictured right), is fighting for her life in an Annecy, France hospital after falling headfirst into a snowdrift and being stuck for 45 minutes at Chamonix on Saturday afternoon, December 8, 2012. She had suffered cardiac arrest by the time rescuers arrived, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2246314\/British-woman-26-life-support-machine-suffocated-snow-drift-45-minutes-medics-reached-horrific-snowboard-accident.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Describing Mimi as &#8216;heavenly&#8217; and with a &#8216;passion for life&#8217;, her aunt <strong>Shona Pollock<\/strong> said her parents and brothers had rushed to be at her bedside. . . The design student was evacuated to hospital in nearby Annecy, before being transferred to a specialist unit. . . Miss Pollock said: &#8216;She is not very well I am afraid, she is still alive, but she is not very well, the family are at her bedside, they are all there. . . &#8216;We don&#8217;t know exactly what happened at the moment, but we believe she was snowboarding on piste and they tend to do little jumps. . . and went into a snow fall and suffocated. . . &#8216;That is what they think, but nobody quite knows for sure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Watts and her family and friends. We hope she can pull through this.<\/p>\n<p>[E<strong>ditors&#8217; Note<\/strong>: As of December 12, 2012 it appears that Mimi Watts is and has been &#8220;brain dead&#8221; since she suffocated on the hill and that her family says &#8220;it is only a matter of time before her life support is switched off.&#8221; Sad news for everyone. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2246314\/Snowboarder-Emily-Mimi-Watts-mother-says-matter-time-machine-switched-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mail Online<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Update December 13, 2012<\/strong>: Mimi Watts has died according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1025116\/british-snowboarder-dies-after-alps-crash\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a><\/strong>. She was 26.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2246314\/British-woman-26-life-support-machine-suffocated-snow-drift-45-minutes-medics-reached-horrific-snowboard-accident.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily &#8220;Mimi&#8221; Watts, a 26-year-old British snowboarder (pictured right), is fighting for her life in an Annecy, France hospital after falling headfirst into a snowdrift and being stuck for 45 minutes at Chamonix on Saturday afternoon, December 8, 2012. She had suffered cardiac arrest by the time rescuers arrived, according to a story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38802"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39901,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802\/revisions\/39901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}