Dean Potter

This past spring, BD Athlete Hazel Findlay faced off with the immaculate 230-foot splitter, Concepción (5.13), located in the southwest desert near Moab, Utah.

The 2019 edition of Ascent---compendium of the year’s best writing---is now available! For a preview of what's inside, check out Francis Sanzaro's Editor's Note.

Watch Adam onsight Dean Potter's classic Concepcion (5.13),  Moab, Utah.

Dean Fidelman, Stonemaster and climber-photographer, started Stone Nudes to explore the different directions he could take climbing photography and elevate the form to what he saw as a higher art.

Dean Potter, 42, Rock Wizard, Flying Human, Highline Walker. Yosemite, California.

After his death, Graham Hunt was known nationwide, but only when headlined with Dean Potter. Yet Hunt was world-class in his own right.

Dean Potter said he could fly. That was 10 years ago. Maybe he could fly. Who knows? He made so many spacey statements and did so many dreamy things they could seem as natural as a flower opening its petals.

Dean’s Delicate Dance: Potter On Laws, Modern America and Soloing Delicate Arch.

Free soloist and free spirit Dean Potter died yesterday in a wingsuit accident while BASE jumping from Taft Point in Yosemite. For nearly 20 years Potter inspired and expanded the minds of multiple generations of climbers. What follows is a collection of news, interviews and even an article by Potter himself, reprinted here in tribute to one of the greatest—and purest—climbers of all time.

Dean Potter claims his three arts are climbing, flying and walking lines. But the Yosemite legend, now 43, adds another to the ranks—running, or as he calls it, “ultra climbing.”

Check out this stunning video of the late Dean Potter walking a highline at Cathedral Peak in Yosemite. Mikey Schaefer captured the video from over a mile away. Potter appears to walk on the moon as he traverses the highline.