“If you don’t do it this year, you’ll be one year older when you do.”
GOOD WORDS TO live by, and spoken by famed ski filmographer Warren Miller, whose family reported this week he had died at the age of 93 on Wednesday evening, Jan. 24. He died peacefully of natural causes at his home on Orcas Island, Wash.
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