{"id":7861,"date":"2009-05-07T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2009-05-07T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T13:58:22","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-austrian-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7861","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Austrian Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboard instructor <strong>Keith McIntosh<\/strong>, 36, was testing new snowboard gear on Austria&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.kaunertaler-gletscher.at\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaunertaler Glacier<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday April 5, 2009 &#8220;when he triggered a massive snowfall,&#8221; according to a story on the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/2009\/05\/07\/snowboard-ace-is-killed-in-avalanche-86908-21338584\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His three British friends &#8211; who had been waiting on the peak for their turn &#8211; said Keith had barely gone 200ft when the snow-face fell away and engulfed him. . . Keith, of Clydebank, near Glasgow, was among Britain&#8217;s top snowboarding instructors and he moved to the French resort of Chamonix in 2002. . . He lived with his wife of seven years, Melanie, 37, and two-year-old son Arren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his friends and family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/2009\/05\/07\/snowboard-ace-is-killed-in-avalanche-86908-21338584\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboard instructor Keith McIntosh, 36, was testing new snowboard gear on Austria&#8217;s Kaunertaler Glacier on Tuesday April 5, 2009 &#8220;when he triggered a massive snowfall,&#8221; according to a story on the Daily Record. His three British friends &#8211; who had been waiting on the peak for their turn &#8211; said Keith had barely gone 200ft [&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\/7861"}],"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=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}