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
Read MoreDean Potter (born 18 January 1972, in the United States) is an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, BASEliner, and highliner. He is noted for hard first ascents, free solo ascents, speed ascents and enchainments in Yosemite and Patagonia. Free climbing and free soloing: Potter has made several new routes and bold solo ascents in
Read MoreAs we descended the fourth pitch of Solar Slab, a guy who I’m pretty sure it was Alex Honnold appeared on the horizon walking down the route and then downclimbing the pitch above us.
Read MoreMasters of Stone VI, an excerpt. Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine set a new speed record on Yosemite’s Nose of El Capitan
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