Did Dean Potter commit suicide?
Did Dean Potter commit suicide?
He believed it was a premonition of his death, he told ESPN in 2008. In the end, Potter’s recurring dream proved prophetic: Saturday evening he died in a base jumping accident at Yosemite National Park. He and a fellow jumper were found dead below Taft Point, a 7,500-foot cliff overlooking the park’s famous valley.
What happened to Dean Potter’s dog whisper?
Potter took Whisper, a mini Australian cattle dog, on various adventures, including BASE jumping and wingsuit flying. Authorities have not said if Whisper joined Potter on the final fatal jump, but Outside magazine reported that the dog is still alive.
Who was Dean Potter with when he died?
Graham Hunt
Extreme athlete Dean Potter and his climbing partner, Graham Hunt, were killed Saturday after jumping from a cliff about 3,500 feet above the park’s valley floor. Professional climber Alex Honnold, who knew both men, confirmed Monday that their bodies were found in a notch below Taft Point.
Is whisper still alive?
Authorities have not said if Whisper joined Potter on the final fatal jump, but Outside magazine reported that the dog is still alive. “We wingsuit, BASE jump quite a bit, but only on the safest jumps,” Potter told Outside in March. “I don’t take her on any superadvanced, death-defying jumps.
Can you base jump off El Capitan?
There is no such permit for BASE jumping, he said. In 2000, a federal appeals court ruled that the National Park Service can ban low-altitude, high-tech parachute jumps like the one that killed stuntwoman Jan Davis at Yosemite’s El Capitan the year before.
Does Alex still free climb?
Alex Honnold is climbing into the podcast world with Climbing Gold, which will tell stories from some of the all-time greats. Honnold turned that love into an unprecedented career as the first and still only free soloist to scale El Capitan — the 3,000 foot mammoth rock formation in Yosemite National Park.
