{"id":342,"date":"2014-02-28T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2014-02-28T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:39:11","slug":"worlds-highest-zip-wire-opens-in-val-thorens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/worlds-highest-zip-wire-opens-in-val-thorens\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s highest zip wire opens in Val Thorens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If skiing and snowboarding wasn&#8217;t thrilling enough for you, this should blow your socks off.<\/p>\n<p>The new zip wire that has just opened in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-thorens\">Val Thorens<\/a> is the highest in the world and will take you 1300m in 1 minute 45 seconds. \u00a0A flight costs \u20ac50.<\/p>\n<p>The lift opened on 16 February 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_343\" style=\"width: 643px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-343\" alt=\"zip wire val thorens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip.png\" width=\"633\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip.png 633w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip-190x106.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip-60x33.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip-400x224.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New zip wire in Val Thorens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The zip wire starts from the top of the Bouchet chairlift in the resort of Orelle, travelling over to the Val Thorens crest at 3000m, at the top of the Funitel.<\/p>\n<p>This video gives you the eagle eye&#8217;s view!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHuWGgPQH-U?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/\">Chaletline.co.uk<\/a> can&#8217;t wait to get out there. \u00a0Your author hope to try it out next month and will report back as soon as he has!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107961348339974741522\/about?rel=author\">Iain Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/worlds-highest-zip-wire-opens-in-val-thorens\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip-190x106.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/zip-190x106.png<\/a><p>If skiing and snowboarding wasn&#8217;t thrilling enough for you, this should blow your socks off. The new zip wire that has just opened in Val Thorens is the highest in the world and will take you 1300m in 1 minute &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/worlds-highest-zip-wire-opens-in-val-thorens\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[84,83,82,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}