{"id":5994,"date":"2009-03-03T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2009-03-03T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:45:13","slug":"british-snowboarder-dies-at-verbier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5994","title":{"rendered":"British Snowboarder Dies at Verbier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-1158878-03bb3d25000005dc-798-224x423jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-1158878-03bb3d25000005dc-798-224x423jpg.jpeg','popup','width=224,height=423,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\/2009\/03\/article-1158878-03bb3d25000005dc-798-224x423-tm.jpg\" height=\"188\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article-1158878-03Bb3D25000005Dc-798 224X423.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>Rob Williams<\/strong>, the 29-year-old founder of British online music equipment retailer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinmusic.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphin Music<\/a><\/strong> died Sunday March 1, 2009 at Verbier after falling more than 60 feet off a cliff, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1158878\/Apprentice-stars-snowboard-pal-falls-death-Alps-Twitter-appeal-mountain-rescue.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Williams] and <strong>Jason Tavaria<\/strong>, also 29, had become separated from friends while snowboarding in the resort of Verbier. . . . They were part of a group of London-based entrepreneurs attending a conference. . . . Mr Williams&#8217;s body was discovered by search teams late on Monday, shortly after they found his mobile phone. . . .Local police confirmed that he had fallen 66 feet onto a bed of rocks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Williams was in Verbier with <strong>Michelle Dewberry<\/strong>, the winner of the <strong>BBC<\/strong> show <strong><em>The Apprentice<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1158878\/Apprentice-stars-snowboard-pal-falls-death-Alps-Twitter-appeal-mountain-rescue.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Williams, the 29-year-old founder of British online music equipment retailer Dolphin Music died Sunday March 1, 2009 at Verbier after falling more than 60 feet off a cliff, according to a story in the Daily Mail. [Williams] and Jason Tavaria, also 29, had become separated from friends while snowboarding in the resort of Verbier. [&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\/5994"}],"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=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}