{"id":48243,"date":"2015-03-30T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48243"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:40:46","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-swiss-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48243","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Swiss Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old snowboarder who was riding off-piste with his 31-year-old brother has died after being caught in an avalanche in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valais.ch\/en\/home\">Valais<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>area (Southwestern Switzerland), according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/british-snowboarder-killed-in-death-valley-swiss-alps-avalanche-10142774.html\">The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pair are thought to have been travelling down the so-called &#8216;Hannibal corridor&#8217; of Mont V\u00e9lan, in the Valais area, when the younger was caught in the slide. . . The accident occurred at an altitude of 3,600 metres and while rescuers were able to reach him quickly, he died at the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is reportedly the 28th person killed by avalanche in Switzerland this winter. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/british-snowboarder-killed-in-death-valley-swiss-alps-avalanche-10142774.html\">The Independent<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old snowboarder who was riding off-piste with his 31-year-old brother has died after being caught in an avalanche in the Valais area (Southwestern Switzerland), according to a story in The Independent. The pair are thought to have been travelling down the so-called &#8216;Hannibal corridor&#8217; of Mont V\u00e9lan, in the Valais area, when the younger [&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\/48243"}],"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=48243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48244,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48243\/revisions\/48244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}