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The Dark Wizard S01E04
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00:04:51Oh yeah, coffee's an amazing drug.
00:04:56Feeling all sorts of energy, thinking that a big change has come in.
00:05:06I feel guilt about the way I treated people.
00:05:11Things I've done.
00:05:16I need to start doing all the things I know are right.
00:05:22Maybe this is the beginning.
00:05:33Back in 2006, when I worked at Patagonia, Dean was one of their ambassadors.
00:05:40And he was fired for climbing the Delicate Arch.
00:05:45After Dean left Patagonia, I didn't hear much about him for a while.
00:05:50And then a few years later, I ran into Dean at the outdoor retailer show.
00:05:56He saw me. He was like, hey, you know, how are you? We gave each other a hug, like catching
00:06:01up.
00:06:01And he said that he'd been through kind of hell and back.
00:06:05He had lost friends. He was just like very open about everything.
00:06:11It was really nice to reconnect with Dean.
00:06:15And then he's like, how's your marriage?
00:06:19And I was like, it's great. Everything's great. All's good.
00:06:24Great to see you, Dean.
00:06:26And then later that night, I was mad at myself for not answering honestly.
00:06:31In reality, I wasn't happily married.
00:06:34We were struggling as a couple.
00:06:37But we had children.
00:06:39And I thought I would never leave that relationship.
00:06:44After that meeting, Dean and I, we ran into each other a couple times.
00:06:49And like, we had so much fun.
00:06:51We had a similar interest in arrowheads.
00:06:54He would send me a picture when he found an arrowhead in Yosemite.
00:06:58I would send pieces that I would find in Santa Barbara.
00:07:02For a while, Dean and I were just friends.
00:07:07But once I realized we had feelings for one another,
00:07:12it was like, all right, it's time to end my marriage.
00:07:17But all signs pointed to, like, this is a really bad idea.
00:07:22I happened to be the spokesperson and publicist
00:07:24for the company that famously fired Dean.
00:07:27All my friends, especially at Patagonia, were going,
00:07:31what the fuck are you doing?
00:07:33Have you gone crazy and left your husband for Dean Potter?
00:07:40You're ruining your family, you're ruining your career.
00:07:44Despite all that, when I was with Dean,
00:07:48I just felt good about myself.
00:07:53I've never felt more, you know, alive.
00:08:00And so one minute, I'm being a mom and working in Santa Barbara.
00:08:05The next minute, I would find myself on the rock wall with Dean.
00:08:11He blamed me, afraid I was going to die.
00:08:15There you go.
00:08:18Yeah, perfect.
00:08:19The excitement and risk.
00:08:21Good job.
00:08:22I realized I needed that.
00:08:27Holy shit, Dean!
00:08:30Step up, dude!
00:08:31Step up!
00:08:35We were genuinely in love.
00:08:39Like, at that time in my life,
00:08:42I had not experienced something like that.
00:08:45Hey, buddy.
00:08:46Good thing I'm not jealous.
00:08:49Dean, in his best moments,
00:08:53is better than anything.
00:09:05So, suddenly, Dean found himself in a relationship
00:09:09with somebody with very young children.
00:09:14And he totally surprised me.
00:09:18He placed such value on the kids.
00:09:22Show me how to jump.
00:09:23Everybody!
00:09:24Woo!
00:09:25Yeah!
00:09:25He very much thought about his role in their life.
00:09:28Nice one, Roro!
00:09:30Yeah!
00:09:30And the impact on them.
00:09:31Happy birthday to you!
00:09:35Nice!
00:09:37I loved bringing the children to Yosemite.
00:09:41Just be playful with it and jump right up on it.
00:09:44Don't worry if you fall 20 times or 100 times.
00:09:47You see, now this is the movement.
00:09:50Walk backwards if you want.
00:09:53These kids, they were fascinated by Dean.
00:09:57Jump up on it.
00:09:58I don't know.
00:09:59He seemed like a cool guy to me always.
00:10:01And we'd be real excited when he was going to come over.
00:10:03Good!
00:10:04Nice!
00:10:05We can go climbing every once in a while.
00:10:07Good job!
00:10:08We can go out there,
00:10:09and he was always trying to teach us how to do stuff.
00:10:12All the way.
00:10:13Dean's unique way of loving.
00:10:15To the next one.
00:10:16I look back and being like, Rowan, climb this, go up 25 feet.
00:10:20You're going to break both your legs if you fall, so...
00:10:23So be really careful, but do it.
00:10:27I was sitting up there trying.
00:10:30But looking back on it, I don't think risk is bad at all.
00:10:33I think risk is really important.
00:10:35I won't touch it.
00:10:35To grow and try new things.
00:10:38Yeah!
00:10:39Nice, Row.
00:10:40These kids, they loved him.
00:10:42He was Dee Dee.
00:10:43Great to meet you.
00:10:45Hi, Dee Dee.
00:10:46I love you so much.
00:10:48I think my brother always had that longing for a stable, calm, loving home.
00:10:58And we didn't have that because of my parents' divorce and the stress in their marriage.
00:11:06That helmet's pretty cute.
00:11:08Dean had always been driven in a way that didn't have a lot of space for other people.
00:11:15Whoa!
00:11:15She'll still do okay.
00:11:18And it was quite a process of him learning how to love.
00:11:24Jen and the kids, you know, they were just a beautiful gift.
00:11:32But, of course, Dean still had his struggles.
00:11:37It wasn't all smiles, that's for sure.
00:11:41His whole life, he had such severe depression.
00:11:47He didn't have an easy path.
00:11:50I remember he'd come over and sometimes he'd bum out.
00:11:54He'd get real bummed, yeah.
00:11:55Blanket over him and sitting underneath that all day long.
00:11:59For days.
00:12:00Just sitting on the couch.
00:12:03Be a different person at times, that's for sure.
00:12:05Dean knew something was wrong with his brain.
00:12:09There was something chemically off with him that made him struggle more than the average person.
00:12:15And he really wanted to fix it.
00:12:19We saw Western doctors.
00:12:21Eastern doctors.
00:12:24Naturopath.
00:12:26He went on this fucking mung bean diet.
00:12:30Wheat gives me the walking farts.
00:12:33He wasn't willing to take antidepressants because I think he didn't want to lose whatever edge his mental illness gave
00:12:41him.
00:12:41Like his drive, his ideas, his dark arts, as he called them.
00:12:47Like you take the darkness away and, you know, you're just a creepy wizard, not the dark wizard.
00:12:56Come on.
00:12:58Come on.
00:12:59But nothing helped him more than whisper.
00:13:03Yeah.
00:13:04Good girl.
00:13:08She was his princess.
00:13:11I see the crystal raindrops fall.
00:13:14And the beauty of it all is when the sun comes shining through.
00:13:20Dean became a total softie around whisper.
00:13:24Good girl.
00:13:27We love the doggie.
00:13:32We can't make it if we try.
00:13:35Whisper was very much her father's daughter.
00:13:38She's a complete asshole 90% of the time.
00:13:43And the sweetest thing, 10%.
00:13:46Whisper bit the children.
00:13:48Whisper bit a lot of people.
00:13:51Whisper.
00:13:52You don't bite. No biting.
00:13:54But to Dean, she was the most loyal dog on the planet.
00:13:57And Dean needed a lot of validation.
00:14:00Good, good, good.
00:14:02She basically wouldn't let anyone near Dean.
00:14:06She was Dean's emotional support animal.
00:14:10So he brought that dog everywhere.
00:14:13Darling, when the morning comes.
00:14:15Come on, girl.
00:14:18I wanna be the one with you.
00:14:20Good girl.
00:14:23We had to climb with Whisper all the time.
00:14:27She went on the side of El Cap with us.
00:14:30Good girl.
00:14:31Whisper, do you like it?
00:14:33Good girl.
00:14:34Whisper flew to Switzerland eight times.
00:14:39Climbed the Jungfrau, rope between us.
00:14:41Went over crevasses.
00:14:43When Dean was like, hey, we might fall in a crevasse.
00:14:45He wasn't like, here's how you save yourself.
00:14:47He was like, here's how you save Whisper.
00:14:56At that time, Dean was laser focused on wingsuit base jumping.
00:15:17That was rad!
00:15:21He would walk up to an exit.
00:15:23And when Dean would jump, Whisper would bark.
00:15:26She would try to run after him.
00:15:29And he thought, that was sad.
00:15:32So Dean was like, hey, if I can climb with her, maybe I can base jump with her.
00:15:37I remember him saying, why am I not jumping with Whisper?
00:15:40And I was like, well, because people don't do that.
00:15:43But lo and behold, a couple of weeks later, we found ourselves working with a designer to develop the Whisper
00:15:51rig.
00:16:01Perfect.
00:16:03Very good.
00:16:04Very good.
00:16:05Very good.
00:16:05She'd get in.
00:16:06She'd kind of be calm.
00:16:07You like that.
00:16:09You like it.
00:16:10She'd kind of fall asleep.
00:16:12Dean thought it was like a dog putting their head out of the car on a freeway.
00:16:17They protect those eyes, huh?
00:16:20You're a good...
00:16:22Best friend, Whisper.
00:16:29You ready, sweetie pie?
00:16:32Three, two, one, see ya.
00:16:34And we're going to go.
00:16:46Thank you.
00:16:47And we're going to go, we're going to go.
00:16:47See ya.
00:16:49Give ya.
00:16:55Woo-hoo!
00:16:58The video has gone viral.
00:17:00First base jumping dog, the whole thing was immediately divisive
00:17:05Some think it's amazing, others say it's cruel
00:17:07Should a base jumping dog give us paws?
00:17:10Yeah, I said paws
00:17:11What a douchebag, this fucking asshole Dean Potter
00:17:15Taking his dog base jumping
00:17:17That's fucking horrible
00:17:19Someone's making that decision for the dog
00:17:21How does he know the dog doesn't hate it?
00:17:24But like, Dean just thought it was the coolest thing ever
00:17:26Dogs, whether they're sitting with us on the couch
00:17:28Or, you know, flying through the air at 100 miles an hour
00:17:31They've always been men's best friend
00:17:33He looked at all of the shit online and was like
00:17:37Here's where you can put your opinions about me and my dog
00:17:45By now, Dean and I had been together for a couple years
00:17:50We bought a big parcel of land in Yosemite West
00:17:54In the National Park
00:17:55We were clearing the land to build our first house on it
00:18:01I had never seen Dean happier
00:18:05Something had fundamentally changed with him
00:18:07He's got Jen, the kids, and Whisper
00:18:11So there was this base there
00:18:14I think that was kind of the mood stabilizer he always needed in a lot of ways
00:18:25He told me, he goes, you know, I'm getting older
00:18:27And I kind of know some things now that I wish I had known, you know, back then
00:18:33I've gone through a whole life of emotions
00:18:38Wondering about my life and what life really means
00:18:42And it certainly isn't just to rock climb
00:18:45It's like feeling happy, having love
00:18:47Hi, Dean
00:18:48Being with Jen and Whisper
00:18:49These are priceless
00:18:50Friends and family
00:18:52Yeah, this is good
00:18:57That's really the thing
00:18:58It's trying to figure out how to be up more
00:19:01No way
00:19:03Not all angst-ridden or depressed
00:19:07Wow, I got that
00:19:10I have such a good life
00:19:11It's hard to realize how I could be down
00:19:16It seemed like the dark wizard had found the light in a way
00:19:21Yeah, oh, it's beautiful
00:19:24Yeah, a little wispy
00:19:28When I met Dean in 2014
00:19:30For some park rangers, he was a devil
00:19:33He was a rascal
00:19:36But I was a climber too
00:19:38So good
00:19:39And so we'd share time together bouldering
00:19:42Yeah, buddy
00:19:43Dean and I became friends
00:19:46I mean, literally
00:19:47Dean Potter climbing with the chief of staff at Yosemite
00:19:49Helping him be a better rock climber
00:19:51It shows that people's minds evolve and mature
00:19:54And Dean's was definitely going there
00:19:56I remember one time I had a dinner party
00:19:58In my house in Yosemite Valley
00:20:01Dean came to the party
00:20:03And Alex Honnold was there
00:20:05I went to this get-together of, you know, friends
00:20:08And climbers
00:20:08Dean and Jen were there
00:20:11And she was just so much more of an adult
00:20:13Than either of us
00:20:14In terms of being well-adjusted
00:20:15And emotionally available
00:20:17And sort of a healthy human
00:20:19Maybe her being there with him
00:20:21Sort of brought out the best in both of us
00:20:23Where we could just be normal adults
00:20:25And chat
00:20:26Ate and hung out
00:20:27And it was all kind of lovely
00:20:30Didn't feel overtly competitive in any way
00:20:33And it was the first time
00:20:34Where I could see myself
00:20:35Maybe climbing with Dean
00:20:36As a partner
00:20:37You know, like
00:20:37Oh, let's go do something together
00:20:38Like, that'd be fun
00:20:39We could hang out and climb
00:20:42Dean put up this post
00:20:45Paying credence to who Alex was
00:20:50It seemed like
00:20:51For the first time
00:20:52Maybe Dean was ready
00:20:54To pass the torch
00:20:59I felt
00:21:00He was back to the love of things
00:21:02He was back to why
00:21:03He originally started all this stuff
00:21:08Dean spent a lot of time
00:21:10In the Yosemite backcountry
00:21:12At night
00:21:12Coming down after climbing
00:21:15Or evening base jumps
00:21:18The moon is fucking beautiful
00:21:24He figured out
00:21:26The day
00:21:27Hour
00:21:28Moment
00:21:29That the moon would pass
00:21:32Between these two features
00:22:02It seemed like
00:22:03Dean was sort of backing away
00:22:05From
00:22:05I'm going to be the best of the best
00:22:07Beat the other guys
00:22:08And do the next achievement
00:22:10Now it was more like
00:22:11This is just my creative self-expression
00:22:15His way of getting closer to nature
00:22:18And his undeniably beautiful vision
00:22:43What do you think
00:22:49I mean
00:22:51You're a good
00:22:51My
00:22:57I've always wanted to fly with the ravens.
00:23:00Their best wing suit flyers are pretty much the dorks compared to the ravens.
00:23:06Deep in his soul, Dean wanted to be a bird.
00:23:11And Dean wanted to fly.
00:23:15It all related directly to dreams that he used to have as a child.
00:23:21In my dream, I'm in free fall, and these creatures come up next to me, gesturing to do as they're
00:23:28doing, and I'll fly.
00:23:33With wingsuit flying, you shape your body into a wing, kind of create this vacuum on your back that lifts
00:23:41you up.
00:23:44He was exploring new possibilities for how he could fly further.
00:23:54So it mostly would come down to minimizing pressure drag.
00:23:58Dean reached out to scientists studying the movements of birds.
00:24:03From the equivalent of the thumb digit, and a bird would elevate that and help control local flow.
00:24:07He would look at the wings and the structure.
00:24:10So it uses his body to produce a little bit of lift.
00:24:12It helped me visualize what's going on when I'm flying.
00:24:16Wings out of the airfoil.
00:24:18And what needs to happen with the evolution of the wingsuit.
00:24:21Nice, so now the air is just going to flow over there and not be hitting angles and slowing me
00:24:25down.
00:24:25Exactly.
00:24:26I need to figure out how to move my body in tune with that wing shape.
00:24:34All these little idea changes and design changes allow you to push the limits of human flight.
00:24:41When I look at just how young wingsuit flying is, these next years it's going to transform.
00:24:48I can't even imagine where it's going to be.
00:24:52He went to Switzerland and opened up the Heiger, the highest point of the Heiger.
00:25:00At the time, it was the biggest jump in the world.
00:25:02I mean, Dean, he's like a mythological creature, right?
00:25:07I mean, the guy just had to fly.
00:25:10Usually base jumps last seconds, and now I'm closing in on a three-minute flight.
00:25:15Potter set the record for the longest wingsuit flight by a human being.
00:25:20All my life, I've been rebelling against the dream, but I started realizing maybe it wasn't me falling to my
00:25:28death that I was dreaming about.
00:25:32Maybe it was me flying.
00:25:41Back in Yosemite, Dean was seeing all kinds of possibilities for new exits.
00:25:47Yeah, this is one of the places I've been wanting to fly from for a long time,
00:25:50but I have to escape this gully here, down there to the sandy landing zone.
00:25:54In Yosemite, Dean was flying with this small group of elite wingsuit-based jumpers.
00:26:01Safe flying, safe flying.
00:26:02It was like this magic moment in time where we were starting to figure out all the different flights we
00:26:08could do in the valley.
00:26:12The new wingsuits were allowing people to fly closer to terrain, fly lower.
00:26:20Also, the wingsuit made it easier to avoid getting caught,
00:26:24because you can land somewhere much farther away that the rangers might not see.
00:26:33It seemed like we could almost do anything we wanted.
00:26:37It was just a bunch of kids in the candy store.
00:26:42There was a good little group of us, and that's where Dean met Graham.
00:26:50Graham Hunt, this sweet, young climber that showed up in the valley.
00:26:56My name's Graham Hunt.
00:26:58I like flying wingsuits, rock climbing, going on adventures.
00:27:03Graham's one of the nicest dudes ever.
00:27:06He was the youngest on the scene.
00:27:08We immediately clicked with Graham.
00:27:11He had this little French bulldog.
00:27:13Whisper and his little Frenchie played together.
00:27:17Whisper, who was totally skeptical of everyone, loved Graham.
00:27:22It takes a lot for Dean to, like, welcome someone into the fold.
00:27:26Thank you, boy.
00:27:27Poor dude.
00:27:28Graham Boat had immediate entrance.
00:27:32Dean respected his quiet ways.
00:27:36Like, Graham was trying to figure out life still.
00:27:39He literally had, like, ten bucks in the bank.
00:27:42What do you do?
00:27:43Right now, I'm just doing labor.
00:27:46He was working for us on the land.
00:27:49He spent a ton of time at our home in Yosemite.
00:27:54Dean really did think of him as a protege.
00:27:58Fight it, Graham.
00:27:59Fight it, fight it.
00:28:01Woo!
00:28:03Awesome, Graham.
00:28:04It's so hard to do this.
00:28:07You good?
00:28:08Dean and Graham began, you know, partnering up on a lot of these jumps.
00:28:12Okay.
00:28:13That's good, bro.
00:28:14Pulling off all kinds of hijinks.
00:28:16Like the first ever flight off of the Lost Arrow Spire.
00:28:22Looked like studs.
00:28:27Flying over Tooltown, where all the rangers lived.
00:28:36They really loved flying with each other.
00:28:39They had such camaraderie.
00:28:41Following you.
00:28:43They would do these trips to Europe together.
00:28:48Where they would jump these big mountain exits.
00:28:56They were feeding off each other's stove.
00:29:02This is fucking awesome.
00:29:06At a certain point, Graham began really kind of pushing it.
00:29:12Graham got really comfortable, really good quickly.
00:29:22He definitely flew, like, aggressively.
00:29:27Proximity flying.
00:29:29Proximity flying, you're just skimming the terrain.
00:29:36Flying as close as you can, above slabs and between trees.
00:29:45At first, most of us were like, we're never going to proximity fly.
00:29:52It's just too crazy.
00:29:55But Graham started going to the extreme.
00:30:05When you're flying close to something, it's like riding in the car.
00:30:08You know, the yellow lines right next to you are just moving real fast.
00:30:13That relativity makes it feel even more so like you're flying.
00:30:18And now that's kind of become the new psych.
00:30:22Up next, a look at wingsuiting, the deadliest sport in the world.
00:30:25With proximity flying, the body count was just breathtaking.
00:30:30One of every 20 have now died.
00:30:33Guys were smacking into stuff all over the world.
00:30:36And they were people Dean knew.
00:30:41I'd interviewed Dean for a magazine about his wingsuit flying.
00:30:46You know, he said to me that he had rules that he followed that would protect him.
00:30:50Dean was the most opposed to any sort of proximity flying.
00:30:54It seemed like Dean was always, like, still being really conservative, flying away from the wall.
00:30:59Not flying next to terrain.
00:31:01Long glides that would mitigate the risks.
00:31:05But as Graham got better and he was able to do more and more technical fights
00:31:15and exceeded Dean,
00:31:19this pure mentorship that Dean had with Graham shifted.
00:31:25A little sketchy.
00:31:26I think Dean felt like he had to maybe keep up with Graham.
00:31:36That's when Dean's competitive nature started bubbling up again.
00:31:40Did you see me come by you?
00:31:42Like, oh, you're doing all these badass things.
00:31:46I could do them too.
00:31:48I think in Dean's head, it starts to escalate.
00:31:52And then Dean, at some point, he crossed that line, started proximity flying.
00:31:59Like, getting as close to stuff as he could.
00:32:25I don't know, there's a certain point in people's careers where you're like,
00:32:30he's made it, he's good.
00:32:33I thought, Dean was past all that, where there's still a danger to themselves.
00:32:37I was like, he's covered, he's smothered and covered, he's not going to be somebody who burns in.
00:32:45But the minute you throw in competition, it becomes ego-driven.
00:32:50Fly these lines and getting lower and lower.
00:32:54And you're like, oh my God, more is possible.
00:32:58Everything's possible.
00:33:05And that's where you get in trouble.
00:33:09It's such a weird sport.
00:33:10You have to believe.
00:33:12You've got to believe in yourself so much.
00:33:14Now that's some fucking human flight for you.
00:33:17But, you know, your ego's not your amigo, right?
00:33:21Ah!
00:33:23Fucking intense.
00:33:26I don't think I get too close.
00:33:28I'm a fucking, might rip your head off.
00:33:33I'm wild.
00:33:36Oh, it was fucking, ledges in my face.
00:33:45¡Suscríbete al canal!
00:34:12¡Suscríbete al canal!
00:34:47¡Suscríbete al canal!
00:34:49Graham didn't know this at the time, but Dean had really hoped to be the first wingserter
00:34:55to open these exits.
00:34:59Opening new exit points, first jumps.
00:35:04Who was going to get to lay claim to these pioneering moments and experiences?
00:35:10Oh my God, I'm sick.
00:35:12One after another, Graham jumped off every tower.
00:35:20Holy shit.
00:35:23Graham bar, dude, just a silent solo killer.
00:35:35Graham came back to Yosemite on fire.
00:35:38He was so proud, so excited to share this with his mentor.
00:35:46But Dean didn't take it that way.
00:35:49Dean said he was pissed that Graham had, like, done all these tower exits that someday Dean
00:35:53thought he was going to open first.
00:35:57He never let on to Graham that he might be feeling jealous or competitive with him.
00:36:03He was also mad at himself for feeling that way.
00:36:08Having problems with my ego, a lot of competition still in me.
00:36:16Unfortunately, I feel, like, jealous or envious, wanting to be the best and stand alone, but
00:36:25that's hard, hard on me and makes me want to push super hard.
00:36:32The ironic part of this whole thing is here's a guy
00:36:36that inside was living in darkness for so fucking long.
00:36:42He even gave in to that darkness.
00:36:44And then he pulls himself out.
00:36:46He struggles.
00:36:47He claws.
00:36:49He climbs.
00:36:53He gets to a place where finally he's going to get the peace that he needs.
00:37:02You think the demons are gone?
00:37:03They're just waiting.
00:37:06And he gets pulled right back into it.
00:37:11Taft Point is this majestic overlook.
00:37:16Graham and Dean would go there all the time for evening base jumps.
00:37:21There's two ways you could jump.
00:37:23If you go left, it's the safe route.
00:37:26You have this long, beautiful flight down to the valley.
00:37:30But to the right is the notch.
00:37:36The notch is this obvious feature where the ridge from the rim comes down.
00:37:43For years, all the guys would joke around.
00:37:46You know, we'll know when suits are getting really good, when we can fly through the notch.
00:37:51Let's do this.
00:37:53But the skills and technology advanced.
00:37:57And people started trying to do it.
00:38:00It's a dangerous proximity flight.
00:38:07The notch was like the gnarliest line ever.
00:38:11It was perfect or dead.
00:38:14If you barely made it, you would go skimming between boulders, tree branches going by.
00:38:23It was one of the riskiest flights done at that time.
00:38:30You've got to get your suit flying as fast as possible and decide if you're high enough to clear it.
00:38:37If you're too low, you have to do this turn maneuver to get out of there.
00:38:49Otherwise, you're going to splatter.
00:38:52I noticed that the really experienced wingsuit flyers just decided that it's not worth it.
00:38:57Like, the margins are too slim.
00:38:59One of the first people to fly through the notch was Graham.
00:39:03And that became Dean's next big objective.
00:39:08I think his mindset was like, I'm just going to show you I can fly the same line you can
00:39:13fly.
00:39:16Dean always jumped first.
00:39:19And Graham would film Dean.
00:39:23Are you going to go for it?
00:39:24Yeah, it's good.
00:39:25Feels really good.
00:39:26Nice and easy.
00:39:29Have fun, brother.
00:39:34When Dean exits, he's a big guy.
00:39:38He sinks for a while.
00:39:39You know, it takes a few seconds to get going.
00:39:42So he would be too low for the notch and have to bail out.
00:39:47But Graham would just go scraping through.
00:39:57And then he would actually do the second notch.
00:40:08Graham had the talent.
00:40:10He had the technical skill that Dean did not have.
00:40:23Dean just couldn't keep up.
00:40:31And ultimately, I think that competitive side that he was trying to control for so many years, like, got the
00:40:40best of him.
00:40:47It was a beautiful spring day.
00:40:53Graham came over to work on the land with us.
00:40:56And the boys decided they wanted to go do an evening base jump.
00:41:01So we drove up to Taft.
00:41:04The vibes seemed extremely chill.
00:41:09Both of them were like, this is such a beautiful night.
00:41:12Like, neither of us even care if we jump.
00:41:15They weren't hell-bent on going through the notch.
00:41:18They were just like, let's see what happens.
00:41:23Dean and Graham are getting ready.
00:41:25They're suiting up.
00:41:26And they didn't even bring a camera.
00:41:29So Dean had just his iPhone facing backwards to film Graham following behind him.
00:41:38I, being the photographer, and, like, trying to figure out the frame.
00:41:49They're at the exit point, and unceremoniously, they jump.
00:41:58And I realize, oh, oh, they're going for the notch.
00:42:04Graham had a faster start.
00:42:07And it immediately gets above Dean.
00:42:10It didn't seem that Dean was high enough.
00:42:14He had a few seconds to decide, do I have the altitude?
00:42:18Do I, like, feel good about this?
00:42:20Meanwhile, Graham is on track.
00:42:23But maybe he sees that Dean is too low.
00:42:26All of a sudden, Graham makes an aggressive left turn.
00:42:29Like, maybe he's going to go around the notch.
00:42:32Maybe he doesn't think they can make it.
00:42:34But Dean just keeps fucking going.
00:42:41Just before the notch, Graham veers back right.
00:42:47And I lost track of Graham.
00:42:49But I saw Dean go through the notch in my photos.
00:42:52Like, that's who I was following.
00:42:54Like, fuck yes, they've made it.
00:42:57And then I heard, like, a, fuck.
00:43:00Like, and I was like, holy shit, someone panic pitched.
00:43:04A panic pitch is like, something's going wrong.
00:43:07I need to pitch my parachute.
00:43:08And I'm standing there on the edge looking for a parachute, and I didn't see anything.
00:43:14There was no parachute.
00:43:15I ended up going like, fuck, what do I, what do I do?
00:43:18I just turned and started running back to the car.
00:43:23I'm texting Dean, calling Dean, being like, something feels really off.
00:43:27Like, where the fuck are you guys?
00:43:29And I go down to the valley floor to our meeting spot.
00:43:33Neither of them were there.
00:43:37And I was like, fuck, something happened.
00:43:42I just, like, started running.
00:43:44And ran to, like, the base.
00:43:47The, uh, the climb.
00:43:49And I was just like, I'll go find him.
00:43:53And I just remember, like, yelling for him.
00:43:57And just thinking, like, he probably could hear me.
00:44:00Like, which is just so ludicrous.
00:44:02Like, he couldn't have, um, and I still didn't, like, I just knew something was really wrong,
00:44:11but I just didn't think he was dead.
00:44:14That night, around 10.30, I heard a knock.
00:44:17It sounded urgent.
00:44:19Opened the door, and I saw Jen, and immediately I saw the terror on her face.
00:44:27I knew what had happened, or I felt I knew what was probably had happened.
00:44:30And so we reported Dean and Graham missing.
00:44:35It was a really long night.
00:44:42They had to bring in a heli.
00:44:52Search and rescue spotted two bodies in the wingsuit equipment.
00:44:59They were able to, um, confirm the fatalities.
00:45:07I don't even remember who told me that they were, I just remember being told they're both in the notch.
00:45:14And they're both dead.
00:45:21I remember really wanting to watch Dean come down.
00:45:26And when he's down, I want to go see him.
00:45:29Like, I want to go and, like, be with him.
00:45:31And they were like, no, no, no, no, no, it's not good, Jen.
00:45:34Like, he impacted with his head.
00:45:37And I was like, I don't give a shit.
00:45:39I want to go see Dean.
00:45:42I walk in the room, and they're both in these black nylon bags.
00:45:46I immediately, like, took off all of the shit they had put on him.
00:45:51His body was perfect.
00:45:55His head had been impacted, but, like, there's no scrapes.
00:45:59There's no fucking limbs sticking out.
00:46:01Like, there's...
00:46:03When someone dies, the only thing you have is them.
00:46:07Like, their body.
00:46:12As weird as that sounds, like, I didn't want to let go of his body.
00:46:15I felt very, very, very protective of it.
00:46:19I didn't want to let it go.
00:46:27I was driving to the Grand Canyon.
00:46:31A friend called, and he said, did you hear?
00:46:35Dean died.
00:46:37I was like, whoosh.
00:46:40And I took a bunch of really deep breaths.
00:46:44And, uh, turned around and drove to Yosemite.
00:46:52There were a lot of questions about what had happened.
00:46:58A friend and I descended from the top into the notch.
00:47:05I was really afraid going down there that I wouldn't be able to handle it emotionally.
00:47:11Top of tree laying right there.
00:47:15Top of tree missing.
00:47:18There was, like, a single tree sticking up
00:47:22that Graham probably wouldn't have been able to see
00:47:25because of the way he was facing.
00:47:27He had done this big turn
00:47:29back over the top of where Dean was.
00:47:33And that's when he clipped the tree
00:47:35and then hit the wall.
00:47:39Then we went down further,
00:47:41and we could see, like, little pieces of fabric.
00:47:44And then we found the spot
00:47:46where Dean impacted headfirst into the rock.
00:47:51He made it through the notch,
00:47:53but on the other side of the notch,
00:47:56it's very low angle.
00:47:58He was losing altitude so fast
00:48:00that he went into the slab.
00:48:06I felt a presence there.
00:48:08It felt really weird.
00:48:09I, like,
00:48:10not like anything I'd ever experienced.
00:48:16Dean was there.
00:48:19You know, talking to me.
00:48:20And, uh,
00:48:21the first thing that
00:48:24that came through was, like,
00:48:26dude, I fucked up so bad.
00:48:29Uh, tell Jen I'm so sorry.
00:48:32Like,
00:48:34and it was
00:48:36it was, like, a super present thing.
00:48:39Like, his voice clear as day talking to me.
00:48:46I was in Santa Cruz.
00:48:50And I got that fucking phone call.
00:48:54I didn't know what to do,
00:48:55and so I just put my clothes on,
00:48:58got in my car,
00:49:01aimed it toward Yosemite.
00:49:05And I just cried.
00:49:08And I got to the valley,
00:49:09and as soon as I got in the valley,
00:49:11as soon as I got there,
00:49:12it started to rain.
00:49:14It just started to pour.
00:49:15And it just fit.
00:49:19And I walked over to the cafeteria.
00:49:22I wanted to see Dean.
00:49:29And he wasn't there.
00:49:34I really loved him.
00:49:43Somebody texted me,
00:49:45did you hear?
00:49:47That's, like, shorthand
00:49:48for someone's death.
00:49:51And, uh,
00:49:52so I,
00:49:53I was like, no,
00:49:54who is it?
00:49:55And it was Dean,
00:49:57and I remember
00:49:59talking with Jim
00:50:01and being like,
00:50:02man, this,
00:50:02this one really hurts.
00:50:04Like,
00:50:04this one's unusually painful,
00:50:06um,
00:50:08because all the other deaths,
00:50:10you died resolved.
00:50:12Or they died as your friend.
00:50:14Oh, look, here it is.
00:50:15Oh, you know what we should get?
00:50:16A big-ass box of cheese-in.
00:50:18That's really healthy.
00:50:19With Dean,
00:50:20I'm so disappointed
00:50:23that we couldn't
00:50:24come back together.
00:50:26His death
00:50:27made it then final
00:50:29that there wouldn't be,
00:50:31like, a reintegration.
00:50:36God, swallow, dude.
00:50:39When he died...
00:50:40I'm gonna put that
00:50:41in the film!
00:50:44We hadn't spoken in years.
00:50:47People do things
00:50:49in their life
00:50:51that aren't always
00:50:52right.
00:50:53And sometimes
00:50:53you wreck relationships.
00:50:55Sometimes
00:50:56you don't make
00:50:57the right call.
00:50:58But when you
00:50:59get older,
00:51:02like, that's the time
00:51:04for you to make amends.
00:51:05And I really thought,
00:51:06as much as I knew
00:51:07he could die,
00:51:10I really hoped
00:51:11that
00:51:12he would get
00:51:13to that place
00:51:14and he would
00:51:15make it right.
00:51:17All he would have
00:51:18had to say was,
00:51:19can I forgive you?
00:51:20Can you forgive me?
00:51:21Just something
00:51:22like that.
00:51:27Really, really...
00:51:29I just miss him.
00:51:32Fuck.
00:51:35Jim, let me hear
00:51:37your voice.
00:51:37Say anything.
00:51:39Stop being a pansy.
00:51:40No!
00:51:43That's pretty good.
00:51:50What is that moment
00:51:51that you're looking for?
00:51:53Like, how will you know
00:51:53you have it?
00:51:54Like, how do you know
00:51:55you have it?
00:51:56You know,
00:51:57transcending
00:51:59human limitations
00:52:01is
00:52:03kind of what I'm
00:52:04obsessed with
00:52:04in life.
00:52:05And I'm obsessed
00:52:06on kind of
00:52:07this flashy way
00:52:08where I fly.
00:52:11But
00:52:13I see that
00:52:14if I could
00:52:14take that
00:52:15and transcend
00:52:15the really
00:52:16the main things
00:52:17that matter
00:52:19hate,
00:52:21jealousy,
00:52:23insecurities,
00:52:24all the
00:52:25negative things
00:52:26that pull you
00:52:27down in life.
00:52:28Maybe right now
00:52:29I'm thinking
00:52:30about flying,
00:52:31but it's just
00:52:32a metaphor
00:52:33to bring me
00:52:34somewhere else.
00:52:37With the power
00:52:38of soul,
00:52:40anything
00:52:41is possible.
00:52:45The bodies
00:52:46of two base jumpers
00:52:47were found
00:52:47in Yosemite National
00:52:48Park yesterday
00:52:49after an illegal
00:52:50jump that went
00:52:50horribly wrong.
00:52:51World-renowned
00:52:52climber
00:52:53Dean Potter
00:52:54and his friend
00:52:54Graham Hunt
00:52:55died during
00:52:56a wingsuit flight
00:52:57in Yosemite.
00:52:58It's a very big
00:52:59loss in the world
00:53:00of extreme sports.
00:53:01He lived life
00:53:02on the edge,
00:53:03pushing the limits
00:53:04of human experience.
00:53:06You know when
00:53:06Dean would finish
00:53:08the big project
00:53:08and get up there
00:53:09and just do that
00:53:10roar?
00:53:13Now on the count
00:53:14of three.
00:53:14One, two, three.
00:53:16Roar!
00:53:17Roar!
00:53:19When I was done
00:53:21dying my conscience
00:53:22regained,
00:53:23so I began
00:53:24my struggle
00:53:25of nothingness
00:53:26strained out
00:53:27a flash made
00:53:28of time
00:53:29my new form
00:53:30blasted out
00:53:30and it startled me
00:53:32so when I burst
00:53:33out a shout out
00:53:35I don't think
00:53:35Dane realized
00:53:37how much
00:53:38people admired
00:53:38him.
00:53:41How much
00:53:42people loved
00:53:43him.
00:53:44That outpouring
00:53:45of love
00:53:46from the community
00:53:48I wish he had
00:53:49seen that.
00:54:04Dean was a dancer
00:54:06on the edge
00:54:08of life
00:54:09and death.
00:54:10They say
00:54:11that mortality
00:54:12is what gives
00:54:13life
00:54:13its most
00:54:14exquisite line.
00:54:17Dean took
00:54:18it there.
00:54:20Dean's death
00:54:21is an end
00:54:22of an era.
00:54:23Who's going
00:54:24to be
00:54:24the artistic
00:54:25creative mind
00:54:26that's going
00:54:26to give us
00:54:27the next
00:54:27wild thing?
00:54:29His ideas
00:54:30were so far
00:54:32out
00:54:32it's like
00:54:33a sunrise.
00:54:38It illuminates
00:54:39your way
00:54:39forward.
00:54:41Something about
00:54:42Dean was
00:54:44fucking cosmic.
00:54:46He was
00:54:46a fucking
00:54:46flawed genius.
00:54:50That's how
00:54:51I want people
00:54:51to remember
00:54:52him.
00:54:53As someone
00:54:54who gave
00:54:54everything he
00:54:55had to
00:54:55his art.
00:54:57He painted
00:54:58something gorgeous
00:55:01across the
00:55:02fucking sky.
00:55:05He would not
00:55:06have wanted to
00:55:07just fade away
00:55:08would he?
00:55:09It was
00:55:10kind of
00:55:10fitting that
00:55:12Dean Potter
00:55:13went out
00:55:14in a blaze
00:55:14of glory.
00:55:19My brother
00:55:19would say
00:55:20the key to
00:55:21happiness
00:55:22is following
00:55:23beauty
00:55:24and not
00:55:25the urge
00:55:26to be the
00:55:26best.
00:55:28Was he
00:55:29able to
00:55:29always do
00:55:30that?
00:55:31No.
00:55:32Right up
00:55:33to the end
00:55:34that was
00:55:34something he
00:55:35really battled.
00:55:36but in
00:55:38his most
00:55:38centered
00:55:39moments
00:55:39he knew
00:55:41it was all
00:55:42about
00:55:42listening to
00:55:43your heart
00:55:44and following
00:55:45that.
00:55:49You know
00:55:49we're all
00:55:50dealt
00:55:50our own
00:55:51weird hand
00:55:52of cards
00:55:52but through
00:55:54all of his
00:55:54struggles
00:55:55Dean made
00:55:57a magnificent
00:55:58and beautiful
00:55:59ride.
00:56:00Thinking about
00:56:01stories I have
00:56:02that could
00:56:03make people
00:56:04laugh
00:56:04cry
00:56:05make others
00:56:06not feel
00:56:07so freakish
00:56:08knowing that
00:56:09some whack
00:56:10job like
00:56:11myself is
00:56:12out there
00:56:13going for
00:56:13it
00:56:14fighting
00:56:15with emotions
00:56:16the whole
00:56:16time
00:56:16but just
00:56:18being me.
00:56:23When I
00:56:24eventually
00:56:24freesale
00:56:25at El Cap
00:56:25it was
00:56:26almost exactly
00:56:27two years
00:56:27after Dean
00:56:28died.
00:56:30I think
00:56:31it would
00:56:31have been
00:56:31amazing
00:56:32to talk
00:56:32to Dean
00:56:33about
00:56:33freesale
00:56:33Angle Cap
00:56:34more than
00:56:35almost anybody
00:56:36else on earth
00:56:36he can
00:56:36appreciate
00:56:37what went
00:56:38into it.
00:56:38I mean
00:56:39Dean was
00:56:39the first
00:56:40person to
00:56:40think about
00:56:40it seriously
00:56:41and he showed
00:56:42the rest of us
00:56:43what's possible.
00:56:45The climbing
00:56:46world is just
00:56:47not the same
00:56:47without the
00:56:48dark wizard
00:56:50but every
00:56:50time I see
00:56:51a raven
00:56:51flying by
00:56:52I think
00:56:52of Dean.
00:56:59Do you
00:57:00want to
00:57:00come out
00:57:01Whisper?
00:57:01Come on
00:57:02Whisper come
00:57:04Come on
00:57:05Whisper pig
00:57:11After
00:57:12Dean's
00:57:12death
00:57:14I
00:57:15did a
00:57:16lot of
00:57:16like
00:57:16therapy
00:57:17trauma
00:57:18therapy
00:57:19and I
00:57:21think it
00:57:21genuinely
00:57:21helped.
00:57:42A few
00:57:43months
00:57:43after the
00:57:44accident
00:57:45I remember
00:57:46the park
00:57:47investigator
00:57:47called me
00:57:48and was
00:57:48like
00:57:49okay
00:57:49so we
00:57:50got the
00:57:50footage
00:57:51back
00:57:51Jen
00:57:51they go
00:57:52into his
00:57:52office
00:57:53and we're
00:57:54going to
00:57:54watch
00:57:54this
00:57:54footage
00:57:55from
00:57:55Dean's
00:57:55phone
00:57:57obviously
00:57:58this is
00:57:58going to
00:57:59be really
00:57:59hard
00:58:03you see
00:58:04them exit
00:58:09Graham
00:58:09flies out
00:58:10of the
00:58:10frame
00:58:13Dean
00:58:13holds
00:58:14his
00:58:14course
00:58:22as he
00:58:23goes
00:58:23as he goes
00:58:23into the
00:58:23notch
00:58:26walls
00:58:27on both
00:58:28side
00:58:28come into
00:58:29view
00:58:31this
00:58:32raven
00:58:32comes in
00:58:33behind
00:58:33him
00:58:35right
00:58:36before
00:58:36he
00:58:36impacts
00:58:53like
00:58:54of course
00:58:54a raven
00:58:56followed
00:58:57him
00:58:57into
00:58:58his
00:58:58death
00:59:19hi
00:59:23come on
00:59:24love
00:59:29i knew
00:59:30he would
00:59:31come
00:59:36everybody
00:59:37misses
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