Dean Potter: Falling To Fly (World Premier Video)
Dean Potter is characterized by creativity, commitment and challenge. He started climbing as a child, with a free solo fall from a stone wall as one of his earliest memories. Since that time, he has speed soloed Half Dome and El Capitan, Cerro Torre, and Fitzroy. He was the first to make a one-day free ascent of El Cap and Half Dome, and a one-day speed linkup of both of those big walls and Mount Watkins, Yosemites third Grade VI wall. He has also established testpiece crack routes in the Utah desert and highball boulder problems in Yosemite.
Dean has walked the longest highlines, often without a safety leash, though he has dedicated over a decade of engineering and testing to create the safest highline systems currently used. Most recently, he has combined BASE jumping skill with highlining and free soloing, using a specially engineered ultralight BASE rig as his backup system.
Dean currently bases out of Yosemite, where he can usually be found on a large piece of granite.
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May 31st, 2010 at 1:22 amYou are a risk taker and its good, because taking risk in life makes people stronger and better. Taking risk in life is a sign that you are improving as a better person.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:21 pm[...] new video sponsored by Prana, “Dean Potter: Falling to Fly” examines the origins of Potter’s compulsion with height orientated risk. The culprit? [...]
June 19th, 2010 at 2:51 pmI am a chinese. A plan of the climbing eventwill be doing in chinese that i want to mr.Dean.Potter took part in the climbing. i need the E-mail or phone of mr.Dean.Potter. please help me How to contact him.
July 13th, 2010 at 3:33 amPlease reply to my emaill: meixiliu@126.com thank you very much!
Hi meixiliu, we have passed on your information to Dean!
July 13th, 2010 at 9:31 amHello,
I thought I give this blog a try in order to find out how I might get in touch with Dean Potter. I am a graduate student at the University of California Riverside pursuing an Master’s in Fine Arts in Experimental Choreography. I have been studying Dean’s work for some time and would be interested in talking to him about it, especially since I would like to re-think what it means to choreograph on vertical terrain and the position of the risk-taking body.
If anyone can get me in communication with him, or at least mention that I have expressed an interest in looking at his work from an artistic (yet critical) and poetic perspective I would greatly appreciate it!
I can be reached via e-mail at csepu002@ucr.edu.
Thanks and Great Video!
Best regards,
Crystal Sepulveda
January 10th, 2011 at 11:53 amHey Crystal, I have passed on your email to Dean!
January 10th, 2011 at 1:01 pmHello Andre,
Thanks for relaying the message and getting us in communication! I will be writing to him soon!
January 12th, 2011 at 10:27 am