{"id":707,"date":"2015-07-21T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2015-07-21T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:17:24","slug":"the-16th-mountain-of-hell-in-les-2-alpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-16th-mountain-of-hell-in-les-2-alpes\/","title":{"rendered":"The 16th Mountain of Hell in Les 2 Alpes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">This leading mountain biking event finished in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/les-deux-alpes\">Les 2 Alpes<\/a> yesterday after three days of action. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Mountain of Hell featured riders from across the globe in this incredible event. \u00a0With over\u00a0700 competitors taking part, there were representatives from across Europe, covering 14 different nationalities, including 21 British riders.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_710\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710\" class=\" wp-image-710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-106.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain of Hell in Les 2 Alpes \" width=\"516\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain of Hell in Les 2 Alpes<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Only for the brave!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Mountain of Hell race sounds straightforward, but it&#8217;s only for the brave!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The race starts at 3200m on the Les 2 Alpes glacier, which holds its snow all year round, and features summer skiing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Then it&#8217;s 2500m of vertical descent in a furious enduro-style freeride race, pumped up with adrenaline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The total distance from start to finish is almost 25 kilometres and with the first to the bottom the winner, there&#8217;s just one piece of advice: ride straight down!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_709\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709\" class=\"wp-image-709 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181-824x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181-824x1024.jpg 824w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181-153x190.jpg 153w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181-60x75.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181-270x335.jpg 270w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-1181.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mountain of Hell descent!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The winners of the 2015 &#8216;Mountain of Hell&#8217; were:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><strong>SCRATCH HOMMES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">1 \u2013 Jamie NICOLL \/ NZ \u2013 33:07.41<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Camille SERVANT \/ FR &#8211; 34:07.52<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Fabien COUSINIE \/ FR \u2013 34:17.49<br \/>\n4 &#8211; \u00a0Olivier BRUWIERE \/ BEL \u2013 34:44.87<br \/>\n5 \u2013 Alexis LEBERT \/ FR \u2013 35:00.39<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCRATCH DAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Morgane SUCH \/ FR \u2013 46:13.80<br \/>\n2 &#8211; Frederica AMELIO \/ ITA \u00a0\u2013 58:05.84<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Kristien NELEN \/ BEL \u2013 58:38.62<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;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\/2015\/07\/the-16th-mountain-of-hell-in-les-2-alpes\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-106-190x123.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Amandine-LRX-106-190x123.jpg<\/a><p>This leading mountain biking event finished in Les 2 Alpes yesterday after three days of action. The Mountain of Hell featured riders from across the globe in this incredible event. \u00a0With over\u00a0700 competitors taking part, there were representatives from across &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-16th-mountain-of-hell-in-les-2-alpes\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}