{"id":1004,"date":"2016-09-07T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2016-09-07T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:45:59","slug":"british-consulate-and-crystal-ski-holidays-clean-up-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/british-consulate-and-crystal-ski-holidays-clean-up-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"British Consulate and Crystal Ski Holidays Clean Up Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top marks to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/world\/france\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/world\/france&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473321294897000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHk0KbKeB6aha8rv8Ts8JbqyoIaFQ\">British Consulate in Marseille<\/a> and Crystal Ski Holidays who teamed up last week and\u00a0helped local volunteers to clean up France\u2019s longest glacier, the Mer de Glace in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/chamonix\">Chamonix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"mer de glace clean up\" width=\"439\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed.jpg 439w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-130x190.jpg 130w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-55x80.jpg 55w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-229x335.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>18 tonnes of rubbish collected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This initiative has been been running since 2008 and is organised by the town of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc , the French Alpine Club, Lafuma and other local groups.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers have collected 18 tons of rubbish during the time. \u00a0The rubbish has come from 500,000 visitors to the glacier, as well as abandoned bivouacs, cables and parts of lifts that have reappeared years later as the glacier has moved and melted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/british-consulate-and-crystal-ski-holidays-clean-up-glacier\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-130x190.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-130x190.jpg<\/a><p>Top marks to the\u00a0British Consulate in Marseille and Crystal Ski Holidays who teamed up last week and\u00a0helped local volunteers to clean up France\u2019s longest glacier, the Mer de Glace in Chamonix. &nbsp; 18 tonnes of rubbish collected This initiative has &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/british-consulate-and-crystal-ski-holidays-clean-up-glacier\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[269,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}