FAMILY, FRIENDS GRIEVE FOR GLOVERSVILLE SNOWBOARDER.(MAIN)

Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writer

His brother describes him as a devout young man who helped give the sometimes-shaky image of snowboarding a good name.

The international winter-sports community remembers him as one of America's best snowboarders, an athlete who narrowly missed qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team and who was featured last year in a national snowboarding magazine.

Jamil Khan, 22, of Gloversville died Wednesday when an avalanche in California buried him in front of his horrified friends.

``He just enjoyed the sport and wasn't the kind of kid who would fall into the pressures of worldly things,'' said his brother Saraj, 24. ``He was a pretty …