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Snowboard pioneer wants more people on the slopes to fight climate change

Snowboard pioneer wants more people on the slopes to fight climate change

UMBERTO BACCHI FAMED for his daring descents down the untracked slopes of hard-to-reach peaks from Norway to Alaska, snowboarding pioneer Jeremy Jones enjoys being alone in nature. Yet the 45-year-old would be happy to see a few more people crowding the mountains he loves - because they are under threat, he said, and he is on a mission to get more people to care. "If you look at (past) environmentalists, none of them were like 'Man, I was hanging in my apartment in New York City, just scrolling through social media, and decided I wanted to become an environmentalist'," Jones…
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