Dean Potter Dies in Wing Suit Accident

Dean Potter, the world’s most renewed rock climber, died Saturday evening in a base jumping accident at Yosemite. Potter is known among enthusiasts as a cutting edge free climber, base jumper, wing suit diver and founder of sport known as freebase, in which climbers attempt previously unclimbable faces while wearing a parachute. Potter died, along with fellow wing suit diver, Graham Hunt, in a failed jump off of Taft Point in Yosemite.

Details according to Outside Magazine:
“Potter and Hunt had been attempting to fly along terrain that required them to clear a notch in a rocky ridgeline. ‘It’s kind of a trickier flight to go through this notch,’ Gauthier says. On Sunday morning, a state police helicopter was able to spot both bodies from the air. No parachutes had been deployed. Two rangers were then airlifted to the site to perform the recovery.”


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