Snowboard pioneer Jake Burton Carpenter has died at 65. Officials from the company he founded, Burton Snowboards, confirmed his death to The Associated Press on Thursday. He had been diagnosed in 2011 but after several months of therapy had been given a clean bill of health. Carpenter brought the snowboard to the masses and helped turn the sport into a billion-dollar business. His goal was to advance the rudimentary snowboard, then called a “Snurfer,” which had been invented by Sherman Poppen a dozen years earlier.

Source: thestar November 21, 2019 16:30 UTC