Okay, Torah Bright did grow up in a small town called Cooma, only an hour’s drive away from what the Australian’s inventively call the Snowy Mountains. The thing about the Snowy Mountains though, is that they are not all that snowy. The season lasts less than three months and the highest mountain is just above 2000m.
It’s pretty amazing then that Bright has gone onto have a legitimate claim to being one of the most progressive female snowboarders in the history of the sport. Granted, she and her family moved to Salt Lake City in 2000, but it was as an Aussie that she won an Olympic Gold in 2010, numerous X Games Medals, and a couple of TTR world Championships.