http://www.metafilter.com/tags/deanpotter Posts tagged with 'deanpotter' at MetaFilter. Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69940/Dean%2DPotter%2Dwalks%2Dthe%2Dline%2Dand%2Dthen%2Djumps%2Doff <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/sports/othersports/14climber.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">"He had learned this extreme form of tightrope walking from a homeless man who wrote books on quantum physics." </a> Iconoclastic rockclimber Dean Potter combines highlining, a form of tightrope walking, with BASE-jumping. This <a href="http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f417744aac502bbf2fb921054e55e379d99f5883">jaw-dropping video</a> of Potter "baselining" 900' above a canyon in Utah provides a taste of what to expect from <a href="http://www.aerialistmovie.com/">The Aerialist</a>, a recent documentary profiling this <strike>insane lunatic</strike> innovative athlete. Potter's <a href="http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200606/dean-potter-delicate-arch-climb-1.html">controversial free climb</a> of Utah's Delicate Arch was <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/51486/A-Delicate-Situation">previously discussed on MeFi.</a> See as well this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90xfWYnz9KM">1min video of his highline of Yosemite's Lost Arrow Spire</a> and this <a href="http://www.climbandmore.com/climbing,530,0,1,climbers.html">summary of his copious climbing achievements.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69940 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800 basejumping cojones deanpotter freeclimbing highlining donovan http://www.metafilter.com/51486/A%2DDelicate%2DSituation <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3800468">"What has our world come to if we cannot join nature by climbing one of nature's most beautiful features?"</a> asks <a href="http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200212/200212/climbing_the_speed_1.html">Dean Potter</a> after he free-climbs Utah's <a href="http://utahpictures.com/DelicateArch1.html">Delicate Arch</a> and pisses off the Park Service. <a href="http://forum.slackline.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=288">Again</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51486 Tue, 09 May 2006 09:14:33 -0800 adventure arches climbing deanpotter outdoor rockclimbing slackline utah mr_crash_davis