{"id":15291,"date":"2010-04-05T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15291"},"modified":"2010-04-05T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:37:48","slug":"snowboarder-suffocates-in-whistler-backcountry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15291","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Suffocates In Whistler Backcountry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old Whistler snowboarder was found dead face down in the snow outside the ski area boundary on Sunday according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvbc.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100404\/bc_snowboarder_death_100404\/20100404?hub=BritishColumbia\" target=\"_blank\">CTVBC.ctv.ca<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Whistler resident was found face down and buried in snow in the heavily forested area known to locals as the &#8220;Khyber Pass.&#8221; . . . He was found by a group of passing skiers, who dug him out of the snow and began performing CPR around 11:30 a.m. . . . Police, ski patrol and search and rescue workers were notified, and located the victim an hour later. . . Police believe the snowboarder fell into a hole created by fallen trees and suffocated in the deep snow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The name of the snowboarder has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvbc.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100404\/bc_snowboarder_death_100404\/20100404?hub=BritishColumbia\" target=\"_blank\">CTVBC<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old Whistler snowboarder was found dead face down in the snow outside the ski area boundary on Sunday according to a story on CTVBC.ctv.ca. The Whistler resident was found face down and buried in snow in the heavily forested area known to locals as the &#8220;Khyber Pass.&#8221; . . . He was found by [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15293,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}