Wing-suit flying can be safe if you are highly practiced and skilled and follow the fundamental rules of questioning yourself and waiting… — Dean Potter Flying Copy Share Image
I had a unique style, I didn't care about how things were done in the past, and I just did what felt… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a… — Dean Potter Being free Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge… — Dean Potter Caves Copy Share Image
For two summers, I lived up on the Eiger for close to 40 days. It was in a tent under this overhang… — Dean Potter Blue Copy Share Image
On the highline my thoughts are simple and clear. Fundamental needs shine through the mental clutter. I focus completely on my breath,… — Dean Potter Connection Copy Share Image
The deaths of such skilled fliers like my very good friend Sean Leary make me see that if there's ever a question… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that… — Dean Potter Alive Copy Share Image
I was having all these thoughts, not really sure what I was doing in school. And I just said, 'I'm gonna go… — Dean Potter Day Copy Share Image
Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
For some reason, BASE jumping is misunderstood and our government forbids it and makes it illegal in most every place in the… — Dean Potter Country Copy Share Image
In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art.… — Dean Potter Art Copy Share Image
My mom was a yoga teacher back in the 1960s, so I observed a lot of the practice. It's movement of the… — Dean Potter Awareness Copy Share Image
There are probably people who think I'm crazy for doing what I'm doing and they're probably right. Compared to them, compared to… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
My fear is with the onset of mainstream interest in extreme sports that diversity will be subdued and eventually snubbed out within… — Dean Potter Community Copy Share Image
I'm not saying take your dog wingsuit flying. But if we can take Whisper BASE jumping or climbing, maybe you can take… — Dean Potter Animal Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that - the pressure change and… — Dean Potter Change Copy Share Image
With the highlining I'm not blocking out the fear, I'm feeling the fear and absorbing everything that's around me, trying to calm… — Dean Potter Calm Copy Share Image
Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
With my height in high school, I was really thinking basketball. But I guess I wasn't that good, because my sophomore year… — Dean Potter Basketball Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s. It was a super open-minded time. I was taught through my parents and TV that everything… — Dean Potter Comic Copy Share Image
Doing things with serious consequences, whether it's death or seriously mangling myself, puts me in a hyper-aware state, and has become somewhat… — Dean Potter Addiction Copy Share Image
When there's a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it… — Dean Potter Death Copy Share Image
When I go out there untethered, the feelings that I slip I die totally overwhelms me. I am after the feeling of… — Dean Potter Control Copy Share Image
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Yosemite really brings out my creativity. It's such a powerful place, there's some sort of amazing energy going on that fuels me. — Dean Potter Amazing Copy Share Image
Climbing for me is about being free. It's just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with… — Dean Potter Being Copy Share Image
The knowledge that in a split second that I could be dead almost overwhelms me. But it is through constant exposure to… — Dean Potter Alive Copy Share Image
I can calm myself by an intense will, and also by the simple ability to focus in the most dangerous situation on… — Dean Potter Calm Copy Share Image
We call the rangers 'the tool.' They're just kind of a tool of the government machine. They don't use their own mind. — Dean Potter Government Copy Share Image
People think I'm a lunatic or adrenaline junkie, but that's not what's going on with me. The beauty is what I'm most… — Dean Potter Adrenaline Copy Share Image
My feet look like hooves-like, fake-leather bottoms and funky toenails - and I scrub them with a big stiff-bristled nylon brush you'd… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
I started free-soloing harder and harder routes, kind of proving to myself that I could take control of this, pretty much the… — Dean Potter Biggest fear Copy Share Image
I'm more proud of how many times I haven't jumped than how many times I have jumped. Sometimes walking down, I've saved… — Dean Potter Life Copy Share Image
I know I'm just as mortal as everybody else and I think about that quite a bit, but I really do feel… — Dean Potter Death Copy Share Image
I had trouble focusing as a child and I still sort of do, but when you climb and you're going to die… — Dean Potter Children Copy Share Image
I regret the negative press that has come with my climb of the Delicate Arch, but I think that there is a… — Dean Potter Bigger picture Copy Share Image
