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'A force of nature.” Accident in Yosemite “He was perhaps the first person to ever achieve world-class proficiency in three adventure disciplines: climbing, slacklining, and BASE jumping. “Dean Potter was the ‘chosen one,’” said John Long, a longtime climbing writer. Potter’s greatest fear, of falling to his death, came true last weekend in Yosemite, where he died BASE jumping at age 4 3.Ĭlimbers were quick to paint Potter as an iconoclastic giant. The intense friction had cauterized his wounds. Potter was not totally unhurt the rope had gouged half-inch ruts in each of his palms, yet they were strangely not bleeding. When Pouchert pulled the canopy off Potter and saw him wide-eyed and alive, he was so happy he kissed Potter on the forehead. With a literal death grip on the rope, Potter slowed his fall and survived crashing onto the floor. Jimmy Pouchert, Potter’s partner and BASE-jumping mentor, had jumped moments before Potter and was now standing at the base, watching the whole thing happen above him. Now just 200 feet above the cavern floor, Potter managed to grab onto the rope, gripping with all his might.

When the parachute opened, its lines twisted and the canopy eventually collapsed on top of Potter.Ī 10-millimeter rope, rigged to allow jumpers to climb back out of the cave, dangled in space just beside the free-falling Potter. His rig, however, had gotten wet overnight.

He jumped and free fell about 600 feet before opening his parachute.

In 2003, with less than a year of BASE jumping experience under his belt, Dean Potter stood at the precipice of the Cave of Swallows, a 1,200-foot-deep hole in the ground near Mexico City.

Alto's adventure - level 48 perform a wingsuit loop before flying through an archway