Here's a fella with no respect for life. Com'on now. If you're literally risking your life to do something that isn't remotely akin to an act of heroism, you have no respect for life OR the people that love you. I'm sure some people will say that he was an adrenaline junkie and that's why he did those things. Stop it! He was just a nut.
Extreme athlete Dean Potter dies in BASE jumping accident
Posted: May 18, 2015 8:05 AM EDT
Updated: May 18, 2015 8:05 AM EDT
Yosemite National Park, Calif. -
A Yosemite National Park spokesman says extreme athlete Dean Potter and another man have died in a BASE jumping accident.
The spokesman says Potter and Graham Hunt died late Saturday after attempting a wingsuit flight from a 7,500-foot promontory called Taft Point.
A search-and-rescue mission began overnight when the jumpers' spotter lost contact with them. Crews found their bodies Sunday in the Yosemite Valley. No parachutes had been deployed.
Potter is renowned for his bold and sometimes rogue climbs and BASE jumps, in which he would parachute from a fixed structure or cliff. BASE jumping is illegal in Yosemite.
Potter was 43. He completed solo ascents and tightrope walks across some of the world's most famous rocks, and recently appeared in a film BASE jumping with his dog.
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