{"id":560,"date":"2008-03-03T20:29:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2008-03-03T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T04:29:38","slug":"british-snowboard-dies-in-french-crevasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"British Snowboard Dies In French Crevasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chamonix is a terrifying place, we know it. Apparently a 33-year-old man from Leeds was on the Vallee Blanche with a guide when he got separated from the group.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He dropped below the main path during a traverse across the slope. Realising his mistake, he stepped out of his bindings and tried to climb up to rejoin the main route.<\/p>\n<p>However, the extra pressure from his boots is thought to have been too much for a snow bridge across a crevasse, which gave way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds us riding there with a friend who said: &#8220;If you see me ollie something, you better ollie because most likely it&#8217;s going to be a crevasse.<strong><\/p>\n<p>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/03\/04\/nboarder104.xml\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamonix is a terrifying place, we know it. Apparently a 33-year-old man from Leeds was on the Vallee Blanche with a guide when he got separated from the group. He dropped below the main path during a traverse across the slope. Realising his mistake, he stepped out of his bindings and tried to climb up [&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\/560"}],"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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}