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Thread: WTF: news on Dean Potter?
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05-18-2015, 10:58 PM #26Registered User
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WTF: news on Dean Potter?
Did they jump in poor visibility to avoid equipment being confiscated? Like that jumper who died on El Cap in a borrowed junky rig with different pull handle, or what it was?
Wingsuiting is nuts. But fun. Should do it one day. Off a plane.
BSBD
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05-19-2015, 07:05 AM #27Registered User
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05-19-2015, 07:34 AM #28Banned
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Funny cause nearly every interview ive EVER seen with a BASE jumper says that its the ADRENALINE that makes them do it. Now the climbing I could understand not wanting full on adrenaline pump and I guess i worded my post wrong. Didnt mean to connect the 2 really.
When putting Dean and Alex in the same category I only meant from the free soloing side, Dean was first and foremost a climber. The risks associated with free soloing are low margin for error (like NONE). Same goes for wingsuiting. I get Dean died wing suiting, but he couldve just as easily died free soloing.
These dudes live life on an edge i cant even fathom.
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05-19-2015, 08:52 AM #29
I didn't know Dean, but I know his uncle. My kids are friends of his kids and his older daughter interned with my wife, all of which are Dean's cousins. It's a sad time for their family.
RIP Dean
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05-19-2015, 09:23 AM #30
Some new info: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...no-6271703.php
And some of you here need to chill out with the judging. Let the man rest in peace.Last edited by couloirman; 05-19-2015 at 11:52 AM.
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05-19-2015, 12:21 PM #31observing free range rude
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This list isn't comprehensive by any means but should give some due credit to the cool shit Dean did.. pics stolen from the interwebz
- In 1998, he set a different kind of speed record on Half Dome, climbing the technical Regular Northwest Face route (V 5.12a), mostly without a rope, and occasionally employing the use of a rope and gear to pull through the more technical cruxes of the route.
- Potter invented “free BASE,” which is free-soloing (climbing without a rope) tall walls (at least 1,000 feet in height) with a parachute for safety in the event of a fall.
- In 2006, Potter free-soloed Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.
- In 2009, Potter set a record in the wingsuit BASE jumping world for duration. Jumping from the Eiger North Face in Switzerland, he stayed in flight for 2 minutes and 50 seconds, a feat which made him one of our Adventurers of the Year. (Watch a video from his Eiger wingsuit flight.)
“Even when it meant losing sponsors and rubbing people the wrong way. Dean was refreshingly non-corporate, and always just balls-to-the-wall badass.” - Wright
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05-20-2015, 05:32 PM #32
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05-20-2015, 05:41 PM #33
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05-20-2015, 05:55 PM #34
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05-20-2015, 06:08 PM #35
Ah, right on. Kinda neat either way to find out he worked there. Makes the connection less abstract.
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05-27-2015, 05:31 PM #36
why? what kid or adult would not want their (apparently loving) father to be there for them as they are growing up and into their adult life?
imo, he (dean) wouldn't have had as much time to do all the stuff that he was doing; he would have been dedicating at least some of his time being a parent. or he could have kept doing what he was doing and been a biological father but not a parent.
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05-27-2015, 05:53 PM #37
I don't think Dean would have done all that BASE if he had a kid...he was actually a very kind hearted guy and I don't think he would have wanted to leave a kid fatherless like that. I respect people like him and Steph Davis who do BASE jumping and proximity wingsuit flying but don't have kids. Their lives are their own to do with what they want.
BTW there's lots of Dean stories in Steph Davis's two books, High Infatuation and Learning to Fly, both of which I recommend. She is a badass and a good writer too.
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05-28-2015, 01:14 AM #38powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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05-28-2015, 09:58 AM #39
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05-28-2015, 02:11 PM #40
I've wondered a lot about what was going through Dean's mind those last few seconds. I read an interview with him once where he said in the back of his mind he thought there was a small chance he could land a crash like that. He said like ten percent of his mind thought he could land it and the rest of him knew he would die. I bet he tried with all his strength to pull up on that wingsuit and land it like a bird.
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06-05-2015, 08:02 PM #41
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06-11-2015, 06:12 PM #42
This NYT article is worth a read...some info in it I wasn't aware of.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/sp...jump.html?_r=0
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06-11-2015, 07:30 PM #43
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06-12-2015, 06:31 PM #44Registered User
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Great article.
Just don't read the comments.
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02-22-2022, 11:59 PM #45Registered User
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Dean potter
Good read, thanks for sharing!!
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02-23-2022, 09:47 PM #46
Sometimes the bots bump good threads. Thinking of you tonight Dean after reading through this. RIP
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02-23-2022, 10:03 PM #47
Thanks for what you shared up above Yeahman. It's always touching to hear those sorts of insights into someone that seems like they occupy such a different world than my boring self.
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02-28-2022, 09:55 AM #48Registered User
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Awesome read - thanks for the share
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