{"id":161212,"date":"2021-06-07T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161212"},"modified":"2021-06-07T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:02:47","slug":"video-the-worlds-craziest-ski-race-involves-crevasses-a-70-foot-gap-jump-and-lots-of-wigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161212","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; The World\u2019s Craziest Ski Race Involves Crevasses, a 70-Foot Gap Jump, and Lots of Wigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>La Grave&#8217;s Derby de La Meije is an 800-person, 6,000-vertical-foot downhill race through some of the gnarliest lift-accessed terrain anywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His eyes bulge as he straight lines out the tightening funnel of La Grave, France\u2019s Vallons de La Meije. The muscles in his thighs tear in ways you can\u2019t train for. On his left, he passes a man sliding on an inner tube. On his right, a woman telemarking in a tutu. He\u2019s locked in the world\u2019s longest human slalom, down 6,000 vertical feet of refrozen knee-deep bumps, with no marked course, and nothing barring the public\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skimag.com\/adventure\/this-story-about-the-most-dangerous-race-on-snow-will-really-make-you-question-participants-sanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>30eme Derby de la Meije 2018<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XcFEXhB1Tg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Grave&#8217;s Derby de La Meije is an 800-person, 6,000-vertical-foot downhill race through some of the gnarliest lift-accessed terrain anywhere. His eyes bulge as he straight lines out the tightening funnel of La Grave, France\u2019s Vallons de La Meije. The muscles in his thighs tear in ways you can\u2019t train for. On his left, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161213,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161212\/revisions\/161213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}