{"id":5631,"date":"2026-02-14T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/5631\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:00:15","slug":"meet-the-ski-patrollers-and-their-rescue-dogs-who-keep-the-french-alps-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/5631\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the ski patrollers and their rescue dogs who keep the French Alps safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">I\u2019m buried beneath a metre of snow above the ski resort of Les Menuires in the French Alps in a cold, silent, friendless world. Then suddenly there\u2019s a scuffling sound, followed by a pair of black paws frantically excavating the snow, as Split the avalanche dog bursts through to my rescue \u2014 more of which later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is all part of an exercise by the Les Menuires Ski Patrol, which I\u2019m shadowing for a day that began a few hours earlier at 7.30am on a cold January dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m buried beneath a metre of snow above the ski resort of Les Menuires in the French Alps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4718,50,4716,4717,4715,3125,4714],"class_list":{"0":"post-5631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-airbnb-thomas-breathnach","9":"tag-alps","10":"tag-bbs","11":"tag-camping","12":"tag-flights","13":"tag-hotels","14":"tag-staycation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}