{"id":1069,"date":"2017-01-10T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:56:55","slug":"the-man-who-skis-in-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-man-who-skis-in-glaciers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Skis In Glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever skied the Vallee Blanche off-piste run in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/chamonix\">Chamonix<\/a>? This famous 20km run should only be attempted with a guide and takes you from the Aiguille du Midi at 3812m carefully down through the Mer de Glace glacier.<\/p>\n<p>French freeskier Sam Favret has gone one step further in his Vallee Blanche run\u2026by skiing literally <strong>IN<\/strong> the glacier itself!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1.jpg\" alt=\"sam_favret_ice_cave-large\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1-190x119.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1-60x37.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1-400x250.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Backyards Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chamonix local revealed his innovation in the release of his new movie \u2018Backyards Project\u2019, which came out at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Favret\u2019s parents are local mountain guides and the movie was mainly filmed in Chamonix. Sam recently said: \u201cFor years I dreamed of taking the time to achieve my vision of creating a film based in my own playing field of Chamonix.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1073\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet.jpg\" alt=\"(c) Fabian Bodet\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet.jpg 620w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet-190x119.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet-60x37.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fabianbodet-400x250.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) Fabian Bodet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you watch the video above you can see Favret riding through tunnels, caves and off ice walls.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/BSrq9XvgCxs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/chamonix\">catered chalets in Chamonix<\/a>, please contact the Chaletline team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-man-who-skis-in-glaciers\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1-190x119.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sam_Favret_ice_cave-large1-190x119.jpg<\/a><p>Have you ever skied the Vallee Blanche off-piste run in Chamonix? This famous 20km run should only be attempted with a guide and takes you from the Aiguille du Midi at 3812m carefully down through the Mer de Glace glacier. &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-man-who-skis-in-glaciers\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[269,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"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=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}