NIWOT - When your father is a forefather, your home movies just might be cinematic history.
"70 years ago, he made his first film and the films still continue and will continue on, you know, just like a Walt Disney movie," Kurt Miller.
Warren Miller gave birth to the ski film genre 16 years before Kurt Miller was born.
"Really, what my father stood for was the outdoors, loving the mountains, inspiring people to go out and enjoy life," Kurt Miller said.
His father was a ski bum who figured out a way to make a living and make difference by opening the eyes of people around the world.
"The movies have touched tens of millions of people and got them really to change their life," Kurt Miller said.
He filmed some of the best skiers in the world flying off cliffs and dropping into narrow chutes showcasing something people now call extreme skiing.
"The people in the film are doing crazy, crazy things and the audience would sit there in awe of the ability of these skiers," Kurt Miller said.
For Kurt Miller, his normal was traveling the world with his dad to film movies like Deep and Light, Have Skis Will Travel, and Steep and Deep. Kurt Miller bought his father's film company in 1989 and expanded his father's work internationally for 25 years.
"I love my dad and I knew from as a young child that this is what I wanted to do," Kurt Miller said.
In January, Warren Miller died at the age of 93.
"It's sad in a lot of ways in that that the kids won't be with him anymore, but these are great memories of skiing with my dad and incredible places and doing that with my family," Kurt Miller said.
On Saturday, April 7, Warren Miller's legacy will be celebrated at the Vail Ski Resort with Warren Miller Day. At Mid-Vail, there will be a gathering at Sarge's before a tribute to Warren Miller with skiers skiing from the top of Vail down to Mid-Vail.
"If you're aware of Jacques Cousteau is and the Cousteau family, Warren Miller is the same thing to the mountains," Kurt Miller said.
