{"id":12361,"date":"2013-12-26T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/skiers-helmet-camera-captures-vail-avalanche-brother-rushing-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T06:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:44:54","slug":"skiers-helmet-camera-captures-vail-avalanche-brother-rushing-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/skiers-helmet-camera-captures-vail-avalanche-brother-rushing-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Skier\u2019s helmet camera captures Vail avalanche, brother rushing to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A video screen capture shows Edwin LaMair buried in snow following an avalanche near Vail on Sunday, December 22, 2013. \" alt=\"A video screen capture shows Edwin LaMair buried in snow following an avalanche near Vail on Sunday, December 22, 2013. \" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/11\/bd\/11bd1aea46d89017a34c504b6e98a165.jpg?itok=SpgWLJA7\" width=\"320\" height=\"179\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A video screen capture shows Edwin LaMair buried in snow following an avalanche near Vail on Sunday, December 22, 2013. (YouTube \/ Ed LaMa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Winter in Colorado brings some of the best ski conditions in the world but in areas outside ski area boundaries, avalanches are a very real danger. One group of skiers was lucky enough to survive an encounter with a collapsing wall of snow Sunday and captured the event on video.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers Edwin and Davis LaMair were skiing near Vail Sunday in two separate groups. With a helmet mounted webcam running, Davis watched in horror as an avalanche on a nearby slope engulfed his brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly sh**! That\u2019s Edwin in an avalanche,\u201d Davis exclaimed to his friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/skier-s-helmet-camera-captures-vail-avalanche-brother-rushing-to-the-rescue?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story and watch the amazing video on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter in Colorado brings some of the best ski conditions in the world but in areas outside ski area boundaries, avalanches are a very real danger. One group of skiers was lucky enough to survive an encounter with a collapsing wall of snow Sunday and captured the event on video. Brothers Edwin and Davis LaMair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/skiers-helmet-camera-captures-vail-avalanche-brother-rushing-to-the-rescue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skier\u2019s helmet camera captures Vail avalanche, brother rushing to the rescue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}