Jeremy Nobis, a former ski racer for Team USA, was discovered dead in his cell early on Wednesday in Cedar City, Utah. The 52-year-old had already served time in jail for repeated DUI offences. Nobis made news in 2006 when he provided a police pursuit that ended with him colliding into a tree. He had a total of four DUI crimes on his record. Nobis failed to show up in court after an impaired driving accident in 2019, leading to the issuance of an arrest warrant.
Jeremy had a long and successful ski career until his downfall. The Wisconsin native was a race prodigy who, at age 16, was selected to the U.S. Ski Team. At the Winter Olympics at Lillehammer in 1994, he competed in races and placed an excellent ninth in the Giant Slalom. From 1986 until his retirement from alpine ski competition in 1996, Nobis participated in the technical Alpine competitions on the FIS Alpine World Cup circuit.
Then, Jeremy rose to fame as a daring freeride skier. Jeremy had appearances in the 2004 Warren Miller film “Impact,” the 2005 film “Higher Ground,” the 2006 film “Off The Grid,” and several more ski documentaries produced by Teton Gravity Research and Matchstick Productions. His daredevil exploits earned him various monikers like “Psycho Nobi” or “The Icon,” and Dynastar created a special edition ski for him.
He is well known for his famous descents of the world’s steepest routes, such the descent of Pyramid Peak, Alaska, which included a 52-degree slope and a 2,000-foot plunge. In Greenland, he is famed for skiing down “Mr. Ripple” and “Cathedral,” where he is credited with successfully navigating “the Catcher’s Mitt” crevasse.
We send our deepest sympathies to his family and friends. Shannon, another brother of Jeremy, competed in skiing for Team USA in the 1994 Winter Olympics, and his sister is a devoted skier who competed for the Park City Ski Team.
