{"id":663,"date":"2015-04-23T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2015-04-23T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:17:48","slug":"norfolk-ski-club-attempt-world-record-for-longest-chain-of-skiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/norfolk-ski-club-attempt-world-record-for-longest-chain-of-skiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Ski Club attempt World Record for Longest chain of skiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More than fifty schools will attempt this weekend to set a new Guiness World Record by\u00a0creating the longest ever chain of skiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attempt will take place this Sunday, 26th April at the home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norfolksnowsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norfolk Snowsports Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2.jpg\" alt=\"norfolk2\" width=\"524\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The attempt coincides with the\u00a0\u00a0annual Schools Ski Championship organised by Eastern Regional Snowsports Association.<\/p>\n<p>To break the record all\u00a0skiers have to hold hands and ski over the 100m slope. \u00a0The children will also be fundraising for several local children&#8217;s charities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growth in popularity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snowsports across the UK has grown in popularity in part due to the success of Team GB in Sochi last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Wright from ERSA noted that &#8216;This is the fourth year of the schools race and the number of participants has been steadily increasing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Ogden from Snowsports England added &#8216;We have a huge snowsports following in East Anglia with some of the best facilities in the country.\u00a0 We hope this record attempt will encourage more schools in the are to take part in snowsports.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/norfolk-ski-club-attempt-world-record-for-longest-chain-of-skiers\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2-190x126.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/norfolk2-190x126.jpg<\/a><p>More than fifty schools will attempt this weekend to set a new Guiness World Record by\u00a0creating the longest ever chain of skiers. The attempt will take place this Sunday, 26th April at the home of the Norfolk Snowsports Club. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/norfolk-ski-club-attempt-world-record-for-longest-chain-of-skiers\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[250,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}