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Dean Potter Fell to His Death Doing a Jump He'd Done At Least 20 Times Before. Inside the Climber's Death, 11 Years Later

Dean Potter is known as one of the most prolific rock climbers, slackliners and BASE jumpers of all time — but even the extreme sports’ best was vulnerable to its dangers.Potter rose to fame in the ...

Rock Climber Dean Potter's Partner Says He 'Knew Something Was Off' Mentally and Saw Multiple Doctors Before His Tragic Death

"There was something chemically off with him that made him struggle more than the average person, and he really wanted to fix it," Jen Rapp says in HBO's 'The Dark Wizard' docuseries ...
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Dean Potter's Colleagues Explain the Late Free Climber's 'Cult-Like' Dark Wizard Persona: 'Gothic Doomsday Vibe'

Dean Potter was a prolific rock climber and BASE jumper until his 2015 death in a wingsuit flying accident in Yosemite National Park at age 43. He skyrocketed to fame following his appearance in the ...
WFMZ-TV

‘The Dark Wizard’: Who Was Dean Potter, the Controversial Climber Profiled in HBO’s New Doc?

Rock-climber Alex Honnold has made a name for himself surviving death-defying vertical ascents without safety precautions, as seen in the 2018 documentary Free Solo and this year’s Netflix special ...
The New Yorker

In HBO’s “The Dark Wizard,” Dean Potter Climbs On

The BASE jumper died in a tragic accident in 2015, the day before he was to accept an award for performance art. A new ...