Dean Cummings Mugshots

Dean Cummings was a champion big mountain skier and a pioneer in the Alaska heli-skiing industry with his now-defunct, Valdez-based company H2O Guides.

But Cummings is now charged with murder in the shooting death of a New Mexico man. And after years of Cummings’ bizarre, sometimes abusive behavior, paranoid delusions and drift away from skiing, those who were close to him are mourning the mountain legend they once knew as well as his alleged victim.