At age 22, he competed in three events at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, when he was one of the top downhill racers in the world.
[2] During those Olympics, he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated;[3] he was the third racer on the downhill very icy course, but fell hard and woke up in a toboggan.
[4] Born and raised in Hanover, New Hampshire, he raced for hometown Dartmouth College and won the NCAA overall skimeister title in 1951 and in 1957.
[4][6][7] He first went to Chile four years earlier, one of the first American ski racers to off-season train in South America.
Miller served in the U.S. Army's Mountain Training Command in the mid-1950s, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1961 and later taught at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington.