{"id":30190,"date":"2012-04-23T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30190"},"modified":"2012-04-23T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:13:31","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-val-thorens-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30190","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Val Thorens Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/val-thorens-mont-de-borgne.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/val-thorens-mont-de-borgne.jpg','popup','width=512,height=341,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\/2012\/04\/val-thorens-mont-de-borgne-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Val-Thorens-Mont-De-Borgne\" \/><\/a>A 32-year-old snowboarder died last Tuesday (April 17, 2012) while riding off-piste at the French resort of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valthorens.com\/winter-en\/home-page.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Val Thorens<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valthonet.com\/events\/news\/snowboarder-killed-in-val-thorens-avalanche.html\" target=\"_blank\">Valthonet.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man was with a group of three snowboarders who had hiked up the Mont du Borgne, on the Saint Martin de Belleville side of the valley when the tragic accident happened. . . At around 7 pm the snowboarder was swept away from the rest of the group by a huge avalanche measuring 100 metres wide by 300 metres long. . . The rescue team dug the victim out of the avalanche just before nightfall and performed emergency CPR but the man could not be revived and was pronounced dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thought are with the man&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valthonet.com\/events\/news\/snowboarder-killed-in-val-thorens-avalanche.html\" target=\"_blank\">Valthnet.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old snowboarder died last Tuesday (April 17, 2012) while riding off-piste at the French resort of Val Thorens, according to a story on Valthonet.com. The man was with a group of three snowboarders who had hiked up the Mont du Borgne, on the Saint Martin de Belleville side of the valley when the tragic [&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\/30190"}],"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=30190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30192,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190\/revisions\/30192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}