Catching air: Women of color learn to teach, diversify snowsports
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 22, 2023
Raised in Hawaii by an Austrian father and Filipino mother, Chris Walch learned to ski in her 20s in Austria. With long black hair and brown skin, she stood out, and, as a new skier, it made her uncomfortable.
“I felt like I had a lot of eyes on me,” she says. “But I really wanted to ski, and if that’s the cost that came with it, that’s the cost that came with it. ... [It’s] not the cost that I want anyone else to have to pay.”
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