How Jess Kimura Blew the Glass Ceiling Off Snowboarding

She's a "five-foot-giant" changing the face of an entire sport. But muscling a space for girls in snowboarding comes at a steep cost.

Photo by Dan Tyler

When pro snowboarder Jess Kimura was coming up in snowboarding in the early 2000s, there were so few girls competing in competitions that they were often just added to the little boys’ category. After all, snowboarding was a sport of baggy pants and thumping garage music, outrageous stunts, and a rebellious fringe culture where showing…