Back in October 2007, we predicted one of the next milestones of adventure would be a freeBASE, a climb sans ropes with only a BASE parachute as protection against a fall. This August Dean Potter ...

The prestigious magazine National Geographic has chosen Dean Potter as one of the 10 Adventurers of the year 2009. Potter impressed with his wingsuit flight off the Eiger in Switzerland in mid-August ...

This article is part of Climbing's ongoing Who's Who biographical study of climbing's all-time greats, achievers, and, in the case of Aleister Crowley, most notorious. Dean Potter (April 14, 1972 - ...

Extreme athlete Dean Potter knew the risks every time he flew off a cliff with a parachute.He lost a friend to a BASE jumping accident last year and spoke about the death-defying nature of the sport ...

On a sunny afternoon in mid-August, Dean Potter stepped onto a tongue of rock just below the summit of Switzerland’s Eiger and jumped off. At first he plunged toward a ledge 600 feet below, then air ...

Nine years ago, Dean Potter, then 34 and already the most transcendent figure of his generation in climbing, expressed that wish in an interview with Rock and Ice magazine. He was serious. Potter had ...