The Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding
While to many of us snowboarding may seem to be a modern offshoot of skiing and skateboarding, for the people of Petran, Turkey, snowboarding has a history that goes back over 300 years. The boards might be primitive in their construction, but the style will be familiar to any Westerner. Alex Yoder and Nick Russell visit Turkey's Kaçkar Mountains, looking for the roots of snowboarding.