{"id":2159,"date":"2016-04-30T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T07:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T10:04:49","slug":"runs-vertical-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/features\/runs-vertical-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Which runs have the most vertical drop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which ski runs have the most vertical drop? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.com\/uk\/en\/snow\/stories\/1331791405286\/top-6-ski-runs-with-the-most-vertical-drop-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull posted an article<\/a> identifying 6. I correctly guessed the top two &#8211; Vall\u00e9e Blanche in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/chamonix.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chamonix<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/zermatt.php\" target=\"_blank\">Zermatt<\/a>, both lift-served although the former is entirely off-piste. They rated Alpe d\u2019Huez third and Revelstoke in Canada fourth, which is a resort I know nothing about.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/zermatt.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"ski the Matterhorn\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><br \/>\nHowever, more interesting is the fifth location in their list. Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsttracksonline.com\/2015\/10\/06\/russia-builds-europes-highest-ski-lift\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Elbrus in Russia has a new gondola<\/a> going up to 3847m, higher even than Aiguille du Midi by about 2m. Mount Elbrus is apparently Europe&#8217;s highest peak at 5633m, somewhat higher than Mont Blanc, at a miserable 4809m, which normally takes the credit. Who knew?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image3.redbull.com\/rbcom\/010\/2016-04-18\/1331789491799_1\/0010\/1\/800\/533\/1\/skier-in-gulmarg-ski-resort.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Gulmarg Si Resort - the highest in the world\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><br \/>\nRounding out the Red Bull list is <a href=\"http:\/\/skigulmarg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gulmarg ski Resort<\/a> in India where the highest lift takes you up to an astonishing 3979m. Not sure about the vertical drop, although I think the bottom station is at about 2660m, and I hear it is a dry resort, but one for the list of 1000 ski resorts to visit before you die.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon I might die before I tick that one off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which ski runs have the most vertical drop? Red Bull posted an article identifying 6. I correctly guessed the top two &#8211; Vall\u00e9e Blanche in Chamonix and Zermatt, both lift-served although the former is entirely off-piste. They rated Alpe d\u2019Huez third and Revelstoke in Canada fourth, which is a resort I know nothing about. However, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/features\/runs-vertical-drop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which runs have the most vertical drop?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[243,99,12,188,37,74,180,113,22],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-chamonix","tag-high","tag-matterhorn","tag-off-piste","tag-ski","tag-ski-resort","tag-ski-resorts","tag-swiss","tag-zermatt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}