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00:00:12When I was a little boy, my first memory was this dream of falling.
00:00:49I always wondered as I got older, you know, if it was some premonition of me falling to
00:00:55my death, but I just feel it so strongly needing to go towards that unknown and that fear.
00:01:09I just feel it.
00:01:39And dying, my conscience regains
00:01:41Oh, I began my struggle
00:01:43Of nothing to strain me
00:01:45And I dropped about climbing
00:01:47Into the night sky
00:01:48And I said all my prayers
00:01:50Because surely I'd die
00:01:52As I crashed down and smashed into earth
00:01:55Into dirt, how my skin
00:01:57Did explode, leaving only
00:01:59My shirt, and the earth
00:02:01Went through me and said it wasn't that
00:02:03Fun, and I replied
00:02:04I'm sorry if I hurt anyone
00:02:07She said, hello
00:02:08Next time, don't worry so much
00:02:11Without ears, I couldn't hear
00:02:13I could just feel the touch
00:02:14As I fell asleep softly
00:02:16The edge of a cave
00:02:18But I should've gone deeper
00:02:20But I'm not so afraid
00:02:35And...
00:02:35Okay
00:02:38Yeah, my name's Dean
00:02:40And we first...
00:02:41My name's Dean Potter
00:02:43I never say my name is Dean Potter
00:02:47Unless I'm talking business
00:02:49And this is to give the folks
00:02:50A warm feeling about me
00:02:52Okay
00:02:52So, my name's Dean
00:02:57You know, there's this mythology
00:02:59Around Dean Potter
00:03:03For a long time
00:03:04I knew Dean
00:03:06More than anyone else in the world
00:03:12And he's still like this enigma
00:03:16Yeah
00:03:17Let's start at the beginning
00:03:23I met Dean
00:03:24In the West Texas desert
00:03:26At Hueco Tanks
00:03:28It was a hot climbing spot
00:03:30At that time
00:03:31People would spend
00:03:32The whole winter
00:03:34Climbing these big boulders
00:03:37Right outside the park
00:03:39They had this corrugated steel
00:03:40Quonset hut
00:03:42I walked in
00:03:43And what I noticed first
00:03:46Was the smell of the climbers
00:03:49There were sleeping bags
00:03:51On the ground
00:03:53Guys snoring
00:03:54And there's one dude
00:03:55With this big long tent pole
00:03:58With a tennis ball
00:03:59Tape to the end
00:04:01When people started to snore
00:04:03He would whack them
00:04:04From across the room
00:04:06You know
00:04:06Whack
00:04:07Whack
00:04:08I was like
00:04:09Wow
00:04:12That's fucking
00:04:14Alpha
00:04:14I guess
00:04:18So I started climbing
00:04:19When I was 17
00:04:20In New Hampshire
00:04:21That year
00:04:22I missed
00:04:23The maximum amount of days
00:04:24From school
00:04:25And
00:04:26And
00:04:27Would do anything
00:04:28To go climbing
00:04:30Taking my
00:04:31My parents car
00:04:31Without permission
00:04:33You know
00:04:34Wrecking my parents car
00:04:35Without permission
00:04:36He had a little crew
00:04:38There was Timmy
00:04:39I was this little wise ass
00:04:41From Philly
00:04:42Utterly in love
00:04:43With the moment
00:04:45We were just climbers
00:04:46Dude
00:04:46We were just so
00:04:47It was so easy
00:04:49And he had Jim
00:04:50We all came from a life
00:04:52That wasn't fulfilling
00:04:54Climbing at the time
00:04:55Was a way to put together
00:04:56A new reality
00:04:57Of what life was going to be
00:04:59For me
00:05:00It was a counterculture thing
00:05:01I dropped out of school
00:05:03Really early
00:05:04And I was playing in bands
00:05:05You know
00:05:06When I found
00:05:07This climbing scene
00:05:09I was like
00:05:10These are my people
00:05:13I remember meeting Dean
00:05:15And Dean loomed
00:05:17Right
00:05:18Very tall
00:05:19Like 6'6
00:05:21Intense
00:05:21Sort of in your face
00:05:24But man
00:05:24He can climb
00:05:25Most of us
00:05:26Were just like
00:05:27Having fun
00:05:28You know
00:05:28On the rock
00:05:29But Dean was tapping
00:05:31Into something
00:05:32Very different
00:05:41From the beginning
00:05:43What really set him apart
00:05:45Was his relationship
00:05:47With fear
00:05:48He was seeking out
00:05:51These climbs
00:05:52That were high
00:05:54And scary
00:05:56For some reason
00:05:58Dean loved that feeling
00:06:00Of being up there
00:06:02Really high off the ground
00:06:03Without a rope
00:06:05Free soloing
00:06:06If you fall off
00:06:08You could die
00:06:11But when he got
00:06:13In a dangerous situation
00:06:14Something in his brain
00:06:15Would kick in
00:06:16And he could take
00:06:17The fear that he had
00:06:19And morph it
00:06:20Into like
00:06:21Superhuman strength
00:06:28In those early days
00:06:31It was pure
00:06:32He wasn't famous
00:06:33He was just discovering
00:06:35The power that he had
00:06:37Bring on back
00:06:41Slacklining
00:06:42Is like surfing
00:06:44You've got to ride
00:06:45This huge wave
00:06:48Come on
00:06:51Next step
00:06:51Was to take it
00:06:52Hundreds of feet
00:06:53Off the ground
00:06:54Oh
00:06:55With a highline
00:06:56You're looking at
00:06:57Will the system
00:06:58Catch you
00:06:59It was all new
00:07:00We didn't have stuff
00:07:01That was built
00:07:01For highlining
00:07:02One, two, three
00:07:03One, two, three
00:07:04No one else
00:07:05Is really developing
00:07:06The technical side
00:07:07Of highlining
00:07:09Just medium
00:07:10You know
00:07:10My close friends
00:07:13They're not rocket scientists
00:07:14Think that'll hold?
00:07:19System failure
00:07:23Trying to walk
00:07:25A highline
00:07:27It fucks with your mind
00:07:29So hard
00:07:31You're tethered
00:07:32To the line
00:07:35But it's terrifying
00:07:40You're doing it, Timmy
00:07:44My hands are sweating
00:07:45Right now
00:07:46Thinking about it
00:07:47But Dean
00:07:48But Dean went so deep
00:07:50Into it
00:07:55It's all about control
00:08:00Becoming the master
00:08:02Of your mind
00:08:06Controlling it
00:08:11In a way
00:08:13Dean's whole life
00:08:15Was about
00:08:16That struggle
00:08:39He used to write in journals a lot
00:08:45He wrote about everything
00:08:49His biggest dreams
00:08:53But also
00:08:54Some bizarre shit
00:08:59If he knew we were reading these journals
00:09:03He would be fucking mortified
00:09:08Dean
00:09:09Who the fuck is he
00:09:11I don't even know
00:09:12Nobody does
00:09:14I hope I don't lose my mind
00:09:15I haven't yet
00:09:17But there's always
00:09:18The possibility
00:09:22There's so much
00:09:23Angst
00:09:27He's clearly in pain
00:09:30You know
00:09:31Some people are blessed
00:09:33And some people are cursed
00:09:36And Dean was both
00:09:40He was cursed with
00:09:41A dark side
00:09:42That sometimes overcame him
00:09:46It was always a struggle
00:09:49With his mind
00:09:52Even when I first met him
00:09:54He would get in his head
00:09:55Like really down
00:09:58And there would be times
00:10:00We would sit together
00:10:00And just have like
00:10:03More than a few beers
00:10:04Or whatever
00:10:04We would literally just sit there
00:10:06And just cry
00:10:09Like fucking weep
00:10:12Both of us were just like
00:10:13What is it that's fucking
00:10:15Stirring the shit in my head
00:10:20We talked about everything
00:10:22Like deep dark childhood shit
00:10:27Dean had issues
00:10:28With his family
00:10:32Relationship stuff
00:10:33I mean
00:10:34He was troubled
00:10:39And it seemed like
00:10:40Climbing
00:10:41It was the only thing
00:10:44That kind of kept
00:10:46The demons at bay
00:10:47You know
00:10:53I climbed to feel
00:10:54The purity
00:10:55Of focused mind
00:10:56And body
00:10:57Unhindered by outside thoughts
00:11:00Dean spent a lot of years
00:11:02Living in a beat up van
00:11:04Got by with very little
00:11:06The best part of
00:11:07Of climbing for me
00:11:09Has been developing
00:11:10The close friendships
00:11:13Being with people
00:11:14That feel the same way I do
00:11:16Their soul is in climbing
00:11:18And living the alternative lifestyle
00:11:21Don't have much money
00:11:23And all you want to do
00:11:24Is climb
00:11:25And enjoy the beautiful sky
00:11:27And rock
00:11:28And world around you
00:11:30It makes no sense to some
00:11:33To us it's all there is
00:11:35It's our religion
00:11:44I remember
00:11:45The first time
00:11:46Going to Yosemite
00:11:47With Dean
00:11:48Your face is pressed
00:11:50To the glass
00:11:50And you're looking up
00:11:52At the walls
00:11:52El Capitan
00:11:55Half Tome
00:11:57They're gargantuan
00:11:59It's hard to fathom
00:12:03Yosemite
00:12:04Climbers
00:12:05Shangri-La
00:12:08For generations
00:12:09Climbers had come
00:12:10To the valley
00:12:12Pushing the limits
00:12:13On these massive walls
00:12:16I was writing a book
00:12:17About the history
00:12:18Of Yosemite climbing
00:12:20Interviewing the old timers
00:12:22And trying to build
00:12:23This story of the lineage
00:12:24And Dean
00:12:25I don't even know
00:12:26If I'd ever heard of him
00:12:27At the time
00:12:27But that was about to change
00:12:33The half dome climb
00:12:34In 99
00:12:35Was Dean's
00:12:36Big breakthrough thing
00:12:40He was pioneering
00:12:42This entirely new way
00:12:43Of climbing big walls
00:12:45Free soloing
00:12:46But with a small section
00:12:48Of rope tied to his back
00:12:51This is a 2,500 foot
00:12:53Fucking wall
00:12:59He would climb
00:13:00Ropeless
00:13:01For most of the route
00:13:03When it got to the parts
00:13:05That were too sketchy
00:13:07For him to free solo
00:13:08He would use the gear
00:13:10You know
00:13:11Place a piece
00:13:12And he'd just yard on it
00:13:14He's pulling on gear
00:13:16And then he unclips
00:13:17Back to free solo
00:13:21Suddenly
00:13:22This guy
00:13:23Can just blitz up
00:13:25You know
00:13:26The prior speed ascent
00:13:27On half dome
00:13:28Was something like
00:13:2920 hours
00:13:31And Dean did it in 4?
00:13:35That was the moment
00:13:36I became aware
00:13:37Of Dean
00:13:38As this paradigm
00:13:40Shattering talent
00:13:41With a totally different way
00:13:43Of thinking about
00:13:43What was possible
00:13:49It's in here somewhere
00:13:54These are the masters of stone
00:13:56In our era
00:13:57The pinnacle of climbing entertainment
00:13:59Was masters of stone
00:14:02These classic videos
00:14:04With all the famous climbers
00:14:06Hair metal
00:14:08Some of it was
00:14:10Kind of cheesy
00:14:11But
00:14:14It was basically
00:14:15Climbing porn
00:14:17But the guy
00:14:18Who made the films
00:14:19Eric Perlman
00:14:20He saw the whole thing
00:14:21In epic terms
00:14:22I came out of the Vietnam War generation
00:14:25I recognized
00:14:26There is something intrinsically beautiful
00:14:30When life is on the line
00:14:32In the crucible
00:14:34Of adventure sport
00:14:36The spirit of man
00:14:38Rises to a whole new level
00:14:41That's what evolution demands of us
00:14:44I had heard about this guy
00:14:47I had heard about this guy Dean Potter
00:14:48I thought I should reach out to him
00:14:51By this time
00:14:52His reputation had grown
00:14:54But he was still like the underground dude
00:14:56Dean made fun relentlessly
00:14:59Of sponsored climbers
00:15:01Shamelessly self-promoting
00:15:03And bringing like capitalist reality
00:15:05Into our sacred climbing
00:15:08I feel that climbers
00:15:09Are overly influenced
00:15:11With the pursuit of numbers
00:15:12Competition
00:15:13Fame
00:15:13And status
00:15:14And I've left behind soul
00:15:18Never sacrifice my soul
00:15:20But at the same time
00:15:22He was worried about his future
00:15:23And he wasn't going to hold down
00:15:25A regular job
00:15:26And I was like
00:15:27Dude
00:15:28You can just be
00:15:29A professional climber
00:15:30You know
00:15:31Shoot with Eric Perlman
00:15:33Get some sponsorships
00:15:35Make a living
00:15:38Ultimately
00:15:39I think Dean
00:15:41Recognized
00:15:41That telling a story
00:15:43Was part of
00:15:45A way to be able
00:15:47To do what you love
00:15:47In this life
00:15:48And get paid for it
00:15:50Action
00:15:53And he embraced
00:15:54The process
00:15:55Of making the movie
00:16:01He brought together
00:16:02His development
00:16:03Of technique
00:16:05His creativity
00:16:07And boldness
00:16:10And laid it all out
00:16:13On the most impactful stage
00:16:15In all of climbing
00:16:18El Capitan
00:16:21Timmy doubled in
00:16:22As an ordinary climber
00:16:24On El Cap
00:16:24We came up with this thing
00:16:26Dean would pass me
00:16:27Dean goes running past
00:16:29What's up dude
00:16:30Don't touch me
00:16:30Don't touch me dude bro
00:16:32And I give this cheeseball reaction
00:16:35And I give this cheeseball reaction
00:16:37There was a certain bit
00:16:39Of theatricality
00:16:40To this
00:16:40Holy shit
00:16:42But I had a sense
00:16:43That when people
00:16:45Saw the things
00:16:46He was doing
00:16:49They'd think
00:16:49This guy's
00:16:51Superhuman
00:16:59As an athlete
00:17:00Dean was the most
00:17:02Natural performer
00:17:04As a speaker
00:17:07Articulator of ideas
00:17:09When I reach the top
00:17:12When I reach the top
00:17:13Yeah
00:17:14Hold on
00:17:15It took a little encouragement
00:17:17Go ahead
00:17:17When I finally reached the top
00:17:19Part of me is
00:17:19Real excited
00:17:20But the rest of me
00:17:21Is just
00:17:22Yeah fuck
00:17:23But most of me
00:17:25Yeah fuck
00:17:25I think at the outset
00:17:27He was just trying
00:17:28To stay authentic
00:17:31This isn't really like me
00:17:32At all
00:17:33It's so different
00:17:34Than how you normally talk
00:17:35My job
00:17:36Was just to coach him
00:17:37And here I am
00:17:38Planted on the summit
00:17:39My feet firm
00:17:40On the ground
00:17:41Checking the view
00:17:42And life is good
00:17:44You do the dialogue
00:17:45And I'll just go
00:17:45Here I am
00:17:47Standing on the top
00:17:48With my feet planted
00:17:49And life is good
00:17:57Masters of stone
00:17:58Changed Dean's life
00:18:00All of a sudden
00:18:01He went
00:18:02From being Dean
00:18:03To being Dean Potter
00:18:05He was in the magazines
00:18:07Getting sponsorships
00:18:09Up until that point
00:18:11He was all about
00:18:12The counterculture
00:18:13Now he's like
00:18:15Promoting brands
00:18:16And shit
00:18:16At first
00:18:18He didn't want
00:18:20To completely buy it
00:18:21For me
00:18:22The most important gear
00:18:24I have is
00:18:24Something that makes
00:18:25My body run clean
00:18:26And strong
00:18:27A dwalla
00:18:28It gets the job done
00:18:37We would give Dean
00:18:38A little bit
00:18:38Of a hard time
00:18:39About it
00:18:39Like he's a soul climber
00:18:41Climbing solely
00:18:42For his sponsors
00:18:43Right
00:18:44Like
00:18:50Dean started
00:18:51To have
00:18:52A mystique
00:18:53Around him
00:18:55He was the center
00:18:56Of this whole cast
00:18:57Of characters
00:18:58In Yosemite
00:18:59I just turned 18
00:19:01When I first showed up
00:19:02In Yosemite
00:19:02We were sort of
00:19:04Peter Pan
00:19:04And the Lost Boys
00:19:05And Dean was a huge
00:19:06Influence on all of us
00:19:08Dean represented
00:19:09What I wanted to be
00:19:10A badass
00:19:12Risk taker
00:19:13Bold
00:19:14Pushing the limits
00:19:16I was lucky
00:19:17Just to be
00:19:17In that same tribe
00:19:18With him
00:19:24We call ourselves
00:19:25The stone monkeys
00:19:26And we had our own call
00:19:27We'd be like
00:19:28Oof, oof, oof, oof, oof
00:19:30We did party style
00:19:32Assess of our capitan
00:19:33Vodka
00:19:34A full bar
00:19:36Ounces of weed
00:19:37Wake and bake
00:19:38Don't tell your mama
00:19:39And papa
00:19:39We had this huge bag
00:19:40Of mushrooms
00:19:41I'm shaking as well
00:19:43You're terrified
00:19:44I'm gonna set up
00:19:45A robe jump out of here
00:19:46And then we jumped off
00:19:50Oh my god
00:19:52Yeah
00:19:55Fucking crazy bastards
00:19:58A capitan
00:20:00It was just
00:20:00A feral existence
00:20:02But this is
00:20:03National Park
00:20:04There was always
00:20:05This like battle
00:20:06With the rangers
00:20:07They would come through
00:20:08And give us tickets
00:20:09And stuff
00:20:09I don't want to come out
00:20:10Here and cut it down
00:20:11Like all the rest of us
00:20:12Were scared of the rangers
00:20:13They all had gums
00:20:14And hats
00:20:14But Dean was like
00:20:15Not afraid
00:20:16How are you?
00:20:17Hi, how are you doing?
00:20:18Turn off the camera
00:20:19Um, no thank you
00:20:21Yeah, in the past
00:20:22I have been kind of
00:20:23Combative towards the rangers
00:20:25My most fundamental
00:20:27Principle is
00:20:28Just being free
00:20:29And, you know
00:20:31I think as long as
00:20:31I'm not harming anybody
00:20:33That I shouldn't be limited
00:20:34How come you're pulling me over?
00:20:36I was just honking at you
00:20:37Because you were in the
00:20:38You were there to yield
00:20:38Right away at that
00:20:39You were in the
00:20:39Back there
00:20:40Oh, no I didn't sir
00:20:41That's a lie
00:20:42I think you're harassing me
00:20:43But unfortunately
00:20:44We're so strapped down
00:20:47With rules
00:20:48That I'm not allowed
00:20:49To be the wild
00:20:50Natural guy
00:20:51That I think
00:20:53Everybody should
00:20:53Be allowed to be
00:20:55He was a total
00:20:56Iconoclast
00:20:57And was going to do
00:20:57Whatever the fuck
00:20:58He wanted
00:20:59Hey
00:21:01Maniac
00:21:03And that became
00:21:04Part of the myth
00:21:06Of Dean Potter
00:21:08As it grew
00:21:09And he got more recognition
00:21:10He seemed like
00:21:11He was taking himself
00:21:13Much more seriously
00:21:15He started to believe
00:21:16That he could be
00:21:17The best climber
00:21:19The best of all time
00:21:21In Yosemite
00:21:23Dean calls
00:21:24And he's like
00:21:25Timmy
00:21:25I need your help
00:21:27It's time to break
00:21:29The speed record
00:21:30On the nose
00:21:30Of El Cap
00:21:32Climbing 3,000 feet
00:21:34As fast
00:21:35As humanly possible
00:21:38It's intense
00:21:40You start the clock
00:21:42Go sprinting up
00:21:44Typically
00:21:45You would take
00:21:46Multiple days
00:21:48And we're trying
00:21:49To do it
00:21:49In just a few hours
00:21:50Dean had a special system
00:21:54You're climbing
00:21:55Simultaneously
00:21:56Which makes it
00:21:57Even more dangerous
00:21:59Once
00:21:59I fell
00:22:00100 feet
00:22:02I smashed
00:22:03Into the wall
00:22:04And I'm like
00:22:06I'm still alive
00:22:06How can it be
00:22:07And then Dean yelled
00:22:09The system works
00:22:11Go go go
00:22:14I love the action
00:22:16Of speed climbing
00:22:17Just galloping
00:22:18Up the rock
00:22:19No rules
00:22:20Whatever it takes
00:22:21Just figure it out
00:22:22And go for it
00:22:24You know
00:22:25You break through
00:22:25Exhaustion
00:22:26Into that flow
00:22:27And then all of a sudden
00:22:28We're standing on top
00:22:29And boom
00:22:31We broke the record
00:22:34Climbing magazine
00:22:34Put him on the cover
00:22:35I was like
00:22:36Down by the UPC symbol
00:22:38Right
00:22:40And immediately
00:22:41The record was broken
00:22:43By Hans Florian
00:22:45Hans Florian
00:22:46Was a legendary character
00:22:47In Yosemite speed climbing
00:22:49You know
00:22:50Mr. El Cap
00:22:52All right
00:22:53Hollywood Hans Florian
00:22:55Woohoo
00:22:55I'm well known
00:22:56For climbing El Cap
00:22:58Smoking fast
00:22:59I come from
00:23:00An athletic
00:23:01Competitive background
00:23:02The most exciting
00:23:03Competitor
00:23:04Hans Florian
00:23:05I wasn't like
00:23:06Dean and his friends
00:23:07Cut off
00:23:08Blue jeans
00:23:09And like
00:23:10You know
00:23:11I'm in Yosemite
00:23:13Because I hate
00:23:14My parents
00:23:15Or because I
00:23:16I don't care
00:23:16To do what society says
00:23:19I was there
00:23:20Because I want
00:23:20To be the best
00:23:22Hans had the nose
00:23:23Record for 10 years
00:23:25When I heard
00:23:26Dean and Timmy
00:23:26Broke our record
00:23:27I was fucking excited
00:23:29There's a race
00:23:32Two weeks later
00:23:33I go get the record back
00:23:34I think this record
00:23:36Will last for a good
00:23:37Long time
00:23:37After that
00:23:38Yeah I think
00:23:39Dean got caught up
00:23:41In the competition
00:23:43That's when we started
00:23:45To see
00:23:45This more aggro
00:23:47Side of Dean
00:23:47He couldn't keep
00:23:49It under control
00:23:51So we're going again
00:23:52And Dean
00:23:53Could be a fucking psycho
00:23:55We were doing the nose
00:23:56I forgot the gear
00:23:57I made this mistake
00:23:58He's like
00:23:59You just fucked us
00:24:01We're gonna lose
00:24:01The record
00:24:02My second or third
00:24:04Speed climb ever
00:24:05Was with Dean
00:24:06I think I had a cam stuck
00:24:07And he just started
00:24:08Screaming at me
00:24:10What the fuck
00:24:10Are you doing
00:24:11He's like
00:24:12We're losing time
00:24:13He was just like
00:24:14So intense
00:24:15And so driven
00:24:16And sometimes
00:24:17That would kind of
00:24:18Spill over
00:24:19Into being a bit
00:24:20Of a dickhead
00:24:23So Dean and I
00:24:25Break the record
00:24:25Again
00:24:26By like 40 minutes
00:24:28I was like
00:24:29Congratulations
00:24:29You guys got the record
00:24:30That's so awesome
00:24:31How did you guys
00:24:32Do it
00:24:33You know
00:24:33And I didn't get
00:24:35A word from Dean
00:24:36He didn't want
00:24:37To face and talk
00:24:38To me
00:24:39Dean and Hans
00:24:41Continued dueling
00:24:42Back and forth
00:24:43On the nose
00:24:44Racing with Hans
00:24:46It disgusted me
00:24:48He was like
00:24:49This little dog
00:24:50Humping my leg
00:24:51I hate the fact
00:24:53That he wanted
00:24:54To just like
00:24:54Piss on
00:24:56What I was doing
00:24:58And I hated
00:25:00The fact
00:25:00That it brought out
00:25:01The little dog
00:25:02In me
00:25:05That would do
00:25:06That back
00:25:10I forced him
00:25:11To show
00:25:12How competitive
00:25:12He was
00:25:13And shown
00:25:14Too dark
00:25:15A side of him
00:25:16Think Hans
00:25:17Is going to be
00:25:17Psyched to come back
00:25:18I don't give a
00:25:18Fuck about Hans
00:25:19Want me to break
00:25:20Your camera dude
00:25:21I was just like
00:25:24Man I can't believe
00:25:25What came out of me
00:25:26Through competition
00:25:27I was a real
00:25:28Asshole
00:25:30So I stopped myself
00:25:33And realized
00:25:34That's not who
00:25:35I want to be
00:25:47Okay we got
00:25:48Two cameras rolling
00:25:53Winky
00:25:55Bo Winkle
00:25:57Dean Fidelman
00:26:00I answer to most of those
00:26:04I've been lurking
00:26:05In this valley
00:26:06For a really long time
00:26:07Okay
00:26:10I was part of
00:26:12The Stunmasters
00:26:12Which was this band
00:26:14Of young climbers
00:26:15That ruled in
00:26:16Yosemite
00:26:17In the 70s
00:26:23I grew up
00:26:24With all these
00:26:25Extraordinary
00:26:25Climbers
00:26:26And documented them
00:26:30We shared this dirt
00:26:34And then
00:26:36They left me
00:26:37They became
00:26:38Captains of industry
00:26:39Or they died
00:26:40Or they got married
00:26:41Or they had families
00:26:41And I had nothing
00:26:42Like that
00:26:44I stayed
00:26:49I never left the dirt
00:26:55When I first met
00:26:56Dean
00:26:56In 96, 97
00:26:58He came up to me
00:26:59One day
00:26:59He goes
00:26:59Why are you here
00:27:00In Yosemite
00:27:03You know
00:27:03I'm an artist
00:27:04I make art
00:27:05And I'm kind of
00:27:06A fuck up
00:27:07And you know
00:27:08Sort of a loser
00:27:09In some ways
00:27:09You know
00:27:10But I'd rather be here
00:27:12And sleep in the meadow
00:27:13And just make my photographs
00:27:16That's what I want to do
00:27:18He believed in me
00:27:21When not a lot of people
00:27:22Were believing in me
00:27:25Bullwinkle
00:27:26He's one of the guys
00:27:27I look up to
00:27:29The stone masters
00:27:31They did what they wanted
00:27:33In what was most cool
00:27:35And radical
00:27:36And felt good to them
00:27:37Somewhat immune
00:27:38To what society thought
00:27:43Dean definitely
00:27:44Was driven
00:27:45By his ego
00:27:47But who he wanted to be
00:27:49Was not that
00:27:50Super competitive
00:27:51Sports bro
00:27:52Kind of guy
00:27:53He was searching
00:27:55For a deeper connection
00:27:57He wanted to be
00:27:59Part of nature
00:28:03He identified
00:28:04With animals
00:28:05Especially with ravens
00:28:08The raven
00:28:10It was definitely
00:28:11A big symbol for him
00:28:13We spent a lot of time together
00:28:16Making photographs
00:28:18Talking about art
00:28:26Early on
00:28:27I could see
00:28:29He was
00:28:31An athlete
00:28:33And he was an artist
00:28:41And he needed to figure out
00:28:43How those two went together
00:28:52I look up at the wall
00:28:53Or see the space
00:28:55Between formations
00:28:57And I kind of get a flash
00:28:59Or a picture
00:29:01And I want to enter that
00:29:04I see myself
00:29:05Becoming one
00:29:06With the beauty
00:29:08And the nature
00:29:10And then I live it
00:29:19He was definitely
00:29:22Seeking a spiritual path
00:29:26But also
00:29:28Wrestling
00:29:31With who he was
00:29:34And who he wanted to be
00:29:47I dream of Stephanie
00:29:50I miss her
00:29:51And wonder how she feels
00:29:53About me
00:29:54My love
00:29:56My love
00:29:56I long for
00:29:57That's terrible
00:29:57Dude
00:29:58So sappy
00:30:03And action
00:30:04My name is Steph Davis
00:30:06I am 26 years old
00:30:07I've been
00:30:09Climbing for
00:30:10Almost exactly
00:30:12Eight years
00:30:12The only time I feel good falling
00:30:15When I'm falling fast and hard for you
00:30:18Steph Davis
00:30:20She was a really strong climber
00:30:23Really, really driven
00:30:25The only time I feel good sinking
00:30:27She was trying to decide
00:30:29Whether to be a lawyer
00:30:30Or a professional climber
00:30:32Steph did that classic dirtbag thing
00:30:35Of dropping out of law school
00:30:37Living in her van
00:30:38And she had become
00:30:40This badass adventurer
00:30:41Doing huge climbs
00:30:45I wrote a story
00:30:46All about how
00:30:47She was making her life
00:30:49Her way
00:30:50My profession
00:30:51Is fairly vague
00:30:53But it involves
00:30:54Mostly just climbing a lot
00:30:55Not only was she climbing
00:30:58At the highest level
00:30:58But she had secured
00:31:00This great sponsorship
00:31:02With Patagonia
00:31:04Let's see
00:31:05How a lot of stripes
00:31:07There was really
00:31:08No one else like her
00:31:10At the time
00:31:12Dean and Steph
00:31:13First got together
00:31:15In the early years
00:31:16He loved Steph
00:31:18More than I've ever seen
00:31:19In love
00:31:21In a lot of ways
00:31:22They seem made for each other
00:31:24These beautiful people
00:31:26Both top climbers
00:31:30But there was this friction
00:31:32Between Steph being
00:31:34A focused professional
00:31:37And Dean
00:31:38Still being
00:31:39A fucking man child
00:31:43They were always
00:31:44A tumultuous pair
00:31:46Get it
00:31:47Oh
00:31:49Dean you didn't move
00:31:50Your left hand
00:31:51Good job
00:31:51They were both
00:31:52Very opinionated
00:31:53That didn't matter
00:31:54It was easy
00:31:54Bullheaded
00:31:55I know
00:31:56But that makes it all
00:31:56Easy
00:31:59These two highly driven people
00:32:02The adrenaline runs hot
00:32:07With Dean
00:32:09The emotions run
00:32:12Super hot
00:32:13Stuff with Steph
00:32:15And love
00:32:16That's more powerful
00:32:18Than anything
00:32:20He always had
00:32:22A really strong fear
00:32:25Of being controlled
00:32:29And that made
00:32:30Relationships
00:32:31Very hard for him
00:32:33There were all these cycles
00:32:35Of passionate love
00:32:37And then breakups
00:32:39He would become
00:32:40Desperate
00:32:41Almost obsessive
00:32:44At one point
00:32:45He had broken up
00:32:46With Steph
00:32:47She went down to Patagonia
00:32:50With another guy
00:32:52They did all these
00:32:54Fucking hard routes
00:32:55Dean was
00:32:56Infuriated
00:32:57And jealous
00:32:58So he went down there
00:33:01And he raged
00:33:02Like never before
00:33:04Alright here we go
00:33:05He was knocking out
00:33:07One outrageous
00:33:08Cutting edge
00:33:09Alpine climb
00:33:10After another
00:33:11Totally alone
00:33:12Oh fuck yeah
00:33:14Woo
00:33:14Duckie
00:33:15He then tries to do
00:33:17A first ascent
00:33:18On Fitzroy
00:33:19Which is a mixture
00:33:20Of rock and ice
00:33:22He gets 7,000 feet
00:33:23To the summit
00:33:25He brought a water bottle
00:33:26Empty
00:33:27To save weight
00:33:28So he can piss in it
00:33:29And then drink that
00:33:33It's just so wrong
00:33:34I'm gonna drink my pee
00:33:36You don't have to do that
00:33:37He gets to the top
00:33:39But when he's going down
00:33:40He gets smashed
00:33:41By a rock
00:33:42I've hurt my head
00:33:44Crawls the base cap
00:33:47He definitely
00:33:48Went beyond
00:33:49Some boundaries
00:33:50And I think
00:33:51It was all about
00:33:51Trying to impress
00:33:53Steph
00:33:58Eventually
00:33:59This
00:34:00Multuous pair
00:34:01They sorted it
00:34:05And
00:34:06Against
00:34:07All the fucking odds
00:34:10They made the decision
00:34:11To get married
00:34:16I was one of the best men
00:34:18Jim officiated
00:34:20I just remember
00:34:21Writing something like
00:34:22They kind of deserve each other
00:34:29There was kind of an
00:34:30Everything coming together
00:34:32Quality for Dean
00:34:34Dean and Steph
00:34:35Had this cute little house
00:34:37Out in Utah
00:34:38Out in Moab
00:34:38They had another place
00:34:40In Yosemite
00:34:41And now they're both
00:34:43Fully sponsored
00:34:43By Patagonia
00:34:45The classiest brand
00:34:46In the game
00:34:47In those years
00:34:50At Patagonia
00:34:51We were climbers
00:34:52But also misfits
00:34:54And countercultural
00:34:55Dean was a brilliant
00:34:57Renegade climber
00:34:59And he kind of delighted
00:35:01In breaking the rules
00:35:02And that was a good fit
00:35:04With Patagonia
00:35:06I spent ten years
00:35:07Heading up PR
00:35:09At Patagonia
00:35:10I remember meeting Dean
00:35:12I was in a photo shoot
00:35:14And I called my mom
00:35:16Like
00:35:16Mom I know what star power is now
00:35:20He was by far
00:35:21The coolest ambassador
00:35:24People just gravitate to him
00:35:26Dean and Steph
00:35:27Started to become famous
00:35:29And started to make real money
00:35:30Stop that
00:35:32Climbing was booming
00:35:33As a sport
00:35:33And Dean really like
00:35:35Rode that wave
00:35:36There was something
00:35:37Truly unique
00:35:38About Dean's game
00:35:40It was as if
00:35:42He was reinventing
00:35:43What it meant
00:35:44To be a great outdoor athlete
00:35:46He was seeing himself
00:35:48In a different light now
00:35:49Really looking at his thing
00:35:52As performance art
00:35:54He wanted to share
00:35:56With the world
00:35:56His artistic vision
00:35:57From then on
00:35:59We filmed
00:36:00Everything that Dean did
00:36:05He was on fire
00:36:07And his sponsors
00:36:09Were psyched
00:36:10Especially Patagonia
00:36:12For like four years
00:36:14Dean and Steph
00:36:16Were the poster children
00:36:18Of everything we stood for
00:36:20And everything we did
00:36:21There was no one
00:36:23That didn't think
00:36:24They were going to be
00:36:25With Patagonia forever
00:36:28What am I looking at?
00:36:30The writing
00:36:33Delegate Arch
00:36:35May
00:36:372006
00:36:38Oh fuck
00:36:39Oh fuck dude
00:36:41Are you shitting me?
00:36:45Oh wait
00:36:45You're wanting to talk to me
00:36:47About the delicate arch
00:36:48I'm not dropping into that
00:36:50Mine hole
00:36:52Bullshit
00:36:52I got really no comment
00:36:54Almost
00:36:55I mean I'll comment on it
00:36:56But I have nothing
00:36:56Nothing to do with it
00:36:57Yeah
00:36:58I really don't want to go there
00:37:00The delicate arch
00:37:04Was toxic
00:37:05Ah shit
00:37:06You got me talking about
00:37:07This is bad
00:37:10Delicate arch
00:37:11Is one of the most
00:37:12Iconic rock formations
00:37:13In the world
00:37:14It's on the Utah
00:37:15License plate
00:37:16Visited by thousands
00:37:18Of tourists every year
00:37:20Delicate arch
00:37:21Seems almost too fragile
00:37:23To stand
00:37:23We knew
00:37:24For climbers
00:37:26There was an unwritten rule
00:37:27That there's certain
00:37:28Formations
00:37:29That you shouldn't
00:37:30Be fucking around on
00:37:32So we were like
00:37:33Poking the bear
00:37:34Right
00:37:36And Dean
00:37:37Being with Steph
00:37:38For so long
00:37:39He hadn't pulled one over
00:37:41On the man
00:37:41In a minute
00:37:46It was this covert operation
00:37:50Where we sneak out
00:37:51In the middle of the night
00:37:53Keep quiet
00:37:56I have an arrow
00:37:59This is the arrow
00:38:01Idea is we're going to
00:38:02Tie a string to the arrow
00:38:04Shoot it over the top
00:38:06Of the arch
00:38:07Fuck
00:38:09And then
00:38:09From the string
00:38:10We're going to drag
00:38:11The rope up
00:38:12We're going to set up
00:38:13A top rope
00:38:14Now we're good
00:38:16So the Dean can rehearse
00:38:18This thing
00:38:19Before soloing
00:38:21We go up there
00:38:23It's got this flat
00:38:24Platform on top
00:38:25And we just
00:38:27Lied there
00:38:28And looked up
00:38:29At the stars
00:38:30I call Timmy
00:38:31I'm on the top
00:38:32Of Delicate Arch
00:38:35Dean's going to climb it
00:38:36And Timmy says
00:38:37That sounds like
00:38:38A bad idea
00:38:39Isn't that on
00:38:40The license plate
00:38:40Isn't that called
00:38:42Delicate
00:38:44Dean wanted to shoot
00:38:45This thing
00:38:46Right at dawn
00:38:48Eric Perlman arrives
00:38:51Hold on
00:38:54Sure
00:38:57I'm rolling
00:39:02He said it's the most
00:39:03Beautiful thing
00:39:04I've ever tried to do
00:39:05You've got to be
00:39:06A part of it
00:39:14Aesthetically
00:39:15It was a classic
00:39:16Art piece
00:39:17On a three-dimensional canvas
00:39:24A vision
00:39:25Of humanity
00:39:29Moving and flowing
00:39:31At one with nature
00:39:38As Dean was climbing
00:39:41These birds came out
00:39:45And they were
00:39:47Whirling around
00:39:54It was more
00:39:55Magical than
00:39:58Any of us
00:39:59Could have expected
00:40:15For Dean
00:40:16The experience
00:40:18Was so profound
00:40:24He thought it would be
00:40:26One of the most
00:40:26Iconic images
00:40:28Ever
00:40:28Of climbing
00:40:32I remember
00:40:33Coming into work
00:40:34And our athlete
00:40:35Manager at the time
00:40:37Was very excited
00:40:38That Dean Potter
00:40:39Had just climbed
00:40:40Delicate Arch
00:40:41She said
00:40:42I've called
00:40:43The media
00:40:44And Dean gave them
00:40:45The footage
00:40:47Initially
00:40:47No one had
00:40:48Any critique about it
00:40:50Dean had done
00:40:50Another rad feat
00:40:51It was on the news
00:40:54That night
00:40:54A rock climber
00:40:55Who made his way
00:40:56To the top
00:40:56Of Delicate Arch
00:40:57Dean Potter
00:40:58Is a professional
00:40:58Climber for Patagonia
00:41:00It's a very difficult
00:41:01Climb
00:41:01I wouldn't recommend
00:41:02But it wasn't
00:41:03Just this puff piece
00:41:04They were looking
00:41:05Into regulations
00:41:06Possibly being broken
00:41:07Potter says
00:41:08He was okay
00:41:09To climb the arch
00:41:10But park officials
00:41:11Disagree
00:41:12The leadership
00:41:13In Arches National Park
00:41:15Got really pissed off
00:41:17Immediately
00:41:17They changed the law
00:41:20Potter may be the last
00:41:21Person to climb
00:41:22Delicate Arch
00:41:23Because the National Park
00:41:24Service has new rules
00:41:25In effect right now
00:41:26And then the shitstorm
00:41:28Started
00:41:30It was headlining
00:41:31National news
00:41:32In the climbing community
00:41:34People were pissed
00:41:36Dean had provoked
00:41:39New restrictions
00:41:40On climbing
00:41:40With publicity
00:41:42With his arrogance
00:41:43And his assumption
00:41:45That he could do
00:41:46Anything he wanted
00:41:49We did not see
00:41:51That coming
00:41:54I'm Tim Neville
00:41:55I'm a correspondent
00:41:56With Outside Magazine
00:41:57One of the big questions
00:41:59Was did he damage
00:42:01This hallowed rock formation
00:42:02I decided to send
00:42:04A photographer
00:42:05Out there to see
00:42:05And he found
00:42:07Damage
00:42:09Grooves
00:42:10Clearly left by a rope
00:42:11Right where they would
00:42:13Have been
00:42:13Climbing and filming
00:42:15Dean was adamant
00:42:17That that damage
00:42:18Was not his
00:42:19I respected the rock
00:42:21And I left it
00:42:23Exactly the way
00:42:24I found it
00:42:24Dude we were not
00:42:26The first ones
00:42:26On top of this thing
00:42:27There were already
00:42:29These rope grooves
00:42:30Right where he was
00:42:32Going to climb
00:42:32There was like
00:42:33The deep forensics
00:42:35Into like
00:42:36The grooves
00:42:36And the stuff
00:42:37And I was like
00:42:38Oh my gosh
00:42:39This seems a little
00:42:41Over the top
00:42:42I do remember
00:42:43After the story broke
00:42:44I got a one line
00:42:47A two word email
00:42:49From Dean
00:42:50That said
00:42:51You're scum
00:42:52And you're
00:42:53Was spelled wrong
00:42:54And I was just like
00:42:56Okay
00:42:58After that piece
00:43:00This thing snowballed
00:43:02People started going
00:43:03After Dean's sponsors
00:43:04Suddenly this became
00:43:06About Patagonia
00:43:07As a supporter
00:43:08Of acts that harm
00:43:10Our natural places
00:43:11People writing emails
00:43:13Postcards
00:43:14I'll never buy
00:43:15Patagonia again
00:43:16And it put Patagonia
00:43:18In a really
00:43:19Awkward position
00:43:20There was this
00:43:22Effort to get
00:43:23Dean to make
00:43:24An apology
00:43:25Just apologize
00:43:26And we could sweep
00:43:27This crap under the rug
00:43:29And Dean
00:43:30Responded
00:43:31In a Dean way
00:43:36The big story
00:43:37In the climbing world
00:43:38These days
00:43:39Involves the famous
00:43:40Climber Dean Potter
00:43:41Yeah I was sitting
00:43:42In the room
00:43:42When he was doing
00:43:43The NPR interview
00:43:44I asked him
00:43:45Why he decided
00:43:46To climb the
00:43:46Delicate Arch
00:43:47And he goes
00:43:47Winky what should I do
00:43:48I mean should I apologize
00:43:50What do I need
00:43:51To do here
00:43:52And I go
00:43:53No man
00:43:53Let's just say
00:43:54Fuck the man
00:43:55Let's like
00:43:56Quote some
00:43:56Edward Abbey
00:43:58And like
00:43:58Throw some other
00:43:59Shit out there
00:43:59Fuck these people man
00:44:00And that was just
00:44:02The wrong thing
00:44:03To do
00:44:04You have a sponsor
00:44:05Patagonia
00:44:06Who wants you
00:44:07To apologize
00:44:08Can you do that
00:44:09Or
00:44:09No
00:44:09I for sure
00:44:10I do have
00:44:11Some regrets
00:44:11And I regret
00:44:13The negative press
00:44:14That has come
00:44:16With my climb
00:44:16Of the delicate arch
00:44:17So it sounds like
00:44:19What you're most
00:44:19Sorry about
00:44:20Is the way
00:44:21This has been
00:44:21Portrayed
00:44:22In the median
00:44:23That's correct
00:44:24I think
00:44:25If you just
00:44:26Keep it factual
00:44:27That a man
00:44:29Climbed up a rock
00:44:30And did no
00:44:31Environmental harm
00:44:32Then I don't think
00:44:33That there is
00:44:34Anything to be
00:44:35Sorry about
00:44:36Other than
00:44:37The negative energy
00:44:38That ensued afterward
00:44:40Basically I'm so sorry
00:44:42That the general public
00:44:43Has its head up its ass
00:44:45And doesn't understand
00:44:47What this is all about
00:44:49Definitely don't call me
00:44:50If you've got some sort of
00:44:52A media problem
00:44:54I'm only going to make
00:44:55Things worse
00:45:01His livelihood
00:45:02Was on the table
00:45:03And he still
00:45:06Didn't want to say sorry
00:45:08He felt misunderstood
00:45:10In the media world
00:45:11And betrayed
00:45:12By a lot of people
00:45:13In the climbing community
00:45:14That came out
00:45:15Against him
00:45:16It came down to
00:45:18Are we going to stay
00:45:19Associated with this guy
00:45:20You know Dean
00:45:21Had made this
00:45:23Public claim
00:45:24That his climb
00:45:25A delicate arch
00:45:26Was performance art
00:45:28That it represented
00:45:29His spiritual connection
00:45:31To nature
00:45:32And I just
00:45:34Didn't buy into that
00:45:35You know
00:45:36It was connected
00:45:37To Dean's own
00:45:38Self-promotion
00:45:39And that made it
00:45:42Bullshit
00:45:48The decision
00:45:49Was made
00:45:49To part ways
00:45:51With Dean
00:45:52The fucked thing is
00:45:54They severed
00:45:55The relationship
00:45:55With Steph
00:45:56As well
00:45:59Steph didn't make
00:46:00This plan
00:46:00But they
00:46:02Shit-canned them both
00:46:03She had known
00:46:04For a while
00:46:05That his sort of
00:46:07Provocateur status
00:46:08Was problematic
00:46:10And now
00:46:11He destroyed
00:46:12This relationship
00:46:14That was really
00:46:15Important to her
00:46:18Steph and Dean
00:46:20Sort of
00:46:21Started to fracture
00:46:22Dean
00:46:23Couldn't fucking deal
00:46:26He just left
00:46:31He left
00:46:32Steph and Moab
00:46:33Drove to Yosemite
00:46:38He needed to be
00:46:39Alone
00:46:43This was Dean
00:46:44Going into dark mode
00:46:49Covering his face
00:46:50With a blanket
00:46:52Sleeping for days
00:46:55And a lot of people
00:46:56Have equated that
00:46:57With like
00:46:58Mental health issues
00:47:01You could call it
00:47:02Mental illness
00:47:03You could call it
00:47:05The dark side
00:47:05But when it arrived
00:47:08It was hard to deal
00:47:11With
00:47:11Hard to explain
00:47:16Looking back
00:47:17It's like
00:47:18We didn't really
00:47:18Talk about mental health
00:47:20Especially as like
00:47:21A man in extreme sports
00:47:23You know
00:47:24You just took that stuff
00:47:25And you shoved it down
00:47:28Dean and I
00:47:30Had an understanding
00:47:31I had been going through
00:47:33Some of the same
00:47:34Struggles that
00:47:35He had been
00:47:36Experiencing
00:47:37A lot of
00:47:39Mood swings
00:47:40Peaks valleys
00:47:42Peaks valleys
00:47:44And we started
00:47:45To talk about
00:47:47Whether it was
00:47:50A condition
00:47:53When Dean and Steph
00:47:54Were solid
00:47:55She had encouraged him
00:47:57To get some
00:47:58Mental health care
00:47:59He was given
00:48:00A prescription
00:48:01Went on medication
00:48:03But he was
00:48:05Terrified
00:48:05That people
00:48:07Would find out
00:48:07That he was
00:48:08Taking this drug
00:48:10You know
00:48:11He threatened me
00:48:12Like
00:48:13I will fucking
00:48:13Kill you
00:48:14If you tell
00:48:15Anyone
00:48:18After the
00:48:18Delicate Arch
00:48:19He stopped it
00:48:20Cold turkey
00:48:22So the
00:48:23Highs became
00:48:24Higher
00:48:24And the lows
00:48:25Became
00:48:25Much lower
00:48:31But for Dean
00:48:34The mania
00:48:35Could be
00:48:37Sort of
00:48:37A source
00:48:38Of
00:48:38Creative
00:48:39Power
00:48:43After
00:48:44The sadness
00:48:45And the isolation
00:48:47The ideas
00:48:49Would start
00:48:49Bouncing around
00:48:50Maybe a sketch
00:48:53In his journal
00:48:57The passion
00:48:58Would get
00:48:59Fanned
00:48:59Into a fire
00:49:02All that angst
00:49:04And all that anger
00:49:06This is where
00:49:07He drew
00:49:08His energy
00:49:08From
00:49:11You know
00:49:11I'm gonna show
00:49:12Those motherfuckers
00:49:14I'm gonna let
00:49:15The fucking
00:49:15Beast out
00:49:19That's when
00:49:20Shit
00:49:20For me
00:49:21Started to be
00:49:22Scary
00:49:28So Dean
00:49:29Goes on this
00:49:29Soloing
00:49:30Binge
00:49:33Trying to
00:49:34Free solo
00:49:35All these routes
00:49:36They're rated
00:49:36512
00:49:41Nobody had
00:49:42Done that
00:49:42In Yosemite
00:49:43Before
00:49:52It was
00:49:52Balls to the
00:49:53Wall
00:49:53Solo
00:49:54This thing
00:49:55The same
00:49:56Day
00:49:56We're driving
00:49:56To this
00:49:57Point
00:49:58Soloing
00:49:58Another thing
00:50:02It was this
00:50:02Manic energy
00:50:03You know
00:50:04And impulsiveness
00:50:18I felt like
00:50:19Dean was
00:50:19Free soloing
00:50:20Stuff
00:50:20Right at
00:50:22His physical
00:50:22Limit
00:50:25Like
00:50:25Sticking his
00:50:26Neck out
00:50:27There
00:50:27And just
00:50:28Trying to
00:50:29Survive
00:50:35I'm trying
00:50:36To leave
00:50:36This body's
00:50:37Limitations
00:50:39Trying to
00:50:40Go beyond
00:50:41The physical
00:50:42And not
00:50:43Be hindered
00:50:43By this
00:50:44This
00:50:46Carcass
00:50:48That
00:50:49Mind
00:50:49Can bring
00:50:50You
00:50:50Beyond
00:50:51The body
00:50:52But
00:50:53It's a
00:50:54Super
00:50:55Fine
00:50:55Line
00:50:56Between
00:50:57Bringing
00:50:58You out
00:50:58Of
00:50:58The body
00:50:59And breaking
00:51:00Through
00:51:00To the
00:51:00Next
00:51:01Level
00:51:02Or
00:51:02Bringing
00:51:03You out
00:51:03Of
00:51:03The body
00:51:05And
00:51:06You're
00:51:06Dead
00:51:08Right before
00:51:09My solos
00:51:10I feel
00:51:11Sick
00:51:12To my
00:51:12Stomach
00:51:15But
00:51:15I have
00:51:16No control
00:51:16I'm
00:51:17Compelled
00:51:17To do
00:51:18It
00:51:21I don't
00:51:22Want to
00:51:22Live
00:51:23If I
00:51:23Can't
00:51:24Do
00:51:24It
00:51:31And
00:51:31Then
00:51:31There's
00:51:32Heaven
00:51:35Heaven
00:51:36Was
00:51:36At
00:51:36The
00:51:37Edge
00:51:37Of
00:51:37His
00:51:38Abilities
00:51:44We
00:51:45Knew
00:51:45That
00:51:46He
00:51:46Could
00:51:47Fall
00:51:49Fall
00:51:49Off
00:51:50That
00:51:50Thing
00:51:50You're
00:51:50Going
00:51:51For
00:51:51Thousands
00:51:52Of
00:51:52Feet
00:51:55He
00:51:56Fully
00:51:56Said
00:51:56To
00:51:56Me
00:51:56He's
00:51:57Like
00:51:57If
00:51:57I
00:51:57Fucking
00:51:58Die
00:51:59Get
00:51:59The
00:51:59Shot
00:52:01Follow
00:52:02Me
00:52:02To
00:52:02The
00:52:02Ground
00:52:02Get
00:52:03The
00:52:03Shot
00:52:03Fucking
00:52:04Dies
00:52:04Like
00:52:04I'm
00:52:04Going
00:52:05To
00:52:05Get
00:52:05The
00:52:05Shot
00:52:05No
00:52:06Your
00:52:07Body
00:52:07Is
00:52:08Getting
00:52:08Tired
00:52:12You're
00:52:13Dealing
00:52:13With
00:52:13This
00:52:14Knowledge
00:52:14That
00:52:15One
00:52:15Mistake
00:52:16Means
00:52:16Your
00:52:17Life
00:52:23But
00:52:24What
00:52:25I've
00:52:25Seen
00:52:25Is
00:52:25When
00:52:26You're
00:52:26In
00:52:26Those
00:52:26Situations
00:52:27You
00:52:28Have
00:52:28All
00:52:28This
00:52:29Amazing
00:52:29Power
00:52:30Inside
00:52:30Of
00:52:30You
00:52:32More
00:52:32Power
00:52:33Than
00:52:33You
00:52:33Can
00:52:33Even
00:52:33Imagine
00:52:49Everyone's
00:52:49Breathing
00:52:50A
00:52:50Sigh
00:52:50Of
00:52:50Relief
00:52:52Like
00:52:52Yeah
00:52:53Man
00:52:53He
00:52:53Made
00:52:54It
00:52:55Dude
00:52:56Fucking
00:52:57Impressive
00:52:58Dean
00:52:59I
00:53:00Was
00:53:00Like
00:53:00Almost
00:53:01Faint
00:53:01Before
00:53:02I
00:53:02Started
00:53:02I
00:53:03Look
00:53:03Like
00:53:03You
00:53:03Just
00:53:04Like
00:53:04This
00:53:05Was
00:53:06The
00:53:06Redemption
00:53:07For
00:53:08The
00:53:08Arch
00:53:09Unequivocally
00:53:10That
00:53:10That's
00:53:11What
00:53:11It
00:53:11Was
00:53:11To
00:53:12Him
00:53:13It
00:53:15Was
00:53:15Like
00:53:16Fuck
00:53:16You
00:53:16Daughters
00:53:17Fuck
00:53:18You
00:53:18Sponsors
00:53:19Fuck
00:53:20The
00:53:20Park
00:53:20Service
00:53:21Nothing
00:53:22Was
00:53:22Gonna
00:53:22Hold
00:53:23Him
00:53:23Back
00:53:24Make
00:53:25Sure
00:53:25He's
00:53:25Looking
00:53:25Hung
00:53:26Yeah
00:53:29At
00:53:30That
00:53:30Point
00:53:30He
00:53:31Thought
00:53:31That
00:53:32He
00:53:32Had
00:53:32The
00:53:32Magic
00:53:33Cocktail
00:53:34Part
00:53:34Of
00:53:34Me
00:53:35Think
00:53:35I'm
00:53:35Crazy
00:53:35But
00:53:36Every
00:53:37Time
00:53:37You
00:53:38Break
00:53:38Through
00:53:39A
00:53:39Limitation
00:53:39It's
00:53:40Like
00:53:40Fuck
00:53:40I
00:53:41Can
00:53:41Do
00:53:41This
00:53:42I
00:53:42Can
00:53:42Do
00:53:42Anything
00:53:43He
00:53:44Was
00:53:44Also
00:53:44Smoking
00:53:44A lot
00:53:45Of
00:53:45Weed
00:53:45Just
00:53:45To
00:53:46Put
00:53:46That
00:53:46Out
00:53:46There
00:53:47There
00:53:48There
00:53:48There
00:53:48A
00:53:48Lot
00:53:48Of
00:53:48A
00:53:49Lot
00:53:49Of
00:53:49People
00:53:50Oh
00:53:50Man
00:53:51You
00:53:51Eating
00:53:51Chips
00:53:52Again
00:53:58At
00:54:00Some
00:54:01Point
00:54:01Steph
00:54:02Called
00:54:02Me
00:54:03And
00:54:03Said
00:54:03Hey
00:54:03I'm
00:54:03Worried
00:54:04About
00:54:04Dean
00:54:04I
00:54:04Haven't
00:54:05Heard
00:54:05From
00:54:05Him
00:54:05Tell
00:54:06Him
00:54:06To
00:54:07Call
00:54:07Me
00:54:07Please
00:54:07I
00:54:08Need
00:54:08To
00:54:08Talk
00:54:08To
00:54:08Him
00:54:09He
00:54:10Just
00:54:10Shut
00:54:10Her
00:54:10Out
00:54:11He
00:54:11Was
00:54:11Like
00:54:11Don't
00:54:12Return
00:54:12Her
00:54:12Calls
00:54:13It's
00:54:13Good
00:54:13When
00:54:14You
00:54:14Are
00:54:14Calming
00:54:14Steph
00:54:15Down
00:54:15Today
00:54:15Man
00:54:16It
00:54:16Was
00:54:16Awesome
00:54:17To
00:54:17Have
00:54:17Bros
00:54:17That
00:54:17Could
00:54:18Do
00:54:18That
00:54:20She
00:54:21Drove
00:54:21To
00:54:22Yosemite
00:54:22To
00:54:23Find
00:54:23Him
00:54:24I
00:54:24Don't
00:54:25Know
00:54:25What
00:54:25Was
00:54:25Said
00:54:25But
00:54:26Katie
00:54:26Arnold
00:54:26The
00:54:27Journalist
00:54:27Happened
00:54:28To
00:54:28Be
00:54:28There
00:54:28I
00:54:29Was
00:54:29Doing
00:54:30A
00:54:30Piece
00:54:30About
00:54:30Dean
00:54:31For
00:54:31ESPN
00:54:31I
00:54:32Get
00:54:32To
00:54:32Yosemite
00:54:33To
00:54:34Find
00:54:39Really
00:54:39Traumatic
00:54:40Altercation
00:54:41And
00:54:42Was
00:54:42Like
00:54:42Holy
00:54:43Shit
00:54:44I
00:54:44Witnessing
00:54:45The
00:54:46End
00:54:46Of
00:54:46Their
00:54:47Marriage
00:54:49My
00:54:49Understanding
00:54:50Is
00:54:51That
00:54:51You
00:54:51Know
00:54:51He
00:54:52Wore
00:54:52His
00:54:52Wedding
00:54:52Wring
00:54:52Around
00:54:53His
00:54:53Neck
00:54:54He
00:54:55Just
00:54:55Pulled
00:54:55It
00:54:56Off
00:54:58Tossed
00:54:58It
00:54:58To
00:54:58Her
00:54:58And
00:54:59He
00:54:59Was
00:54:59Like
00:55:00I
00:55:00Want
00:55:00Freedom
00:55:02I
00:55:02Want
00:55:02To
00:55:02Be
00:55:02Free
00:55:05You
00:55:06Know
00:55:07Steph
00:55:08She
00:55:09Is
00:55:09The
00:55:09Love
00:55:09Of
00:55:09My
00:55:09Life
00:55:10And
00:55:11I
00:55:12Always
00:55:12Thought
00:55:12That
00:55:12That
00:55:12Was
00:55:13The
00:55:14Most
00:55:14Important
00:55:14Thing
00:55:15For
00:55:15Me
00:55:15Was
00:55:15Love
00:55:18But
00:55:18I'm
00:55:19Uncontrollably
00:55:20Drawn
00:55:22Away
00:55:22From
00:55:22The
00:55:22Thing
00:55:23I
00:55:23Thought
00:55:23I
00:55:23Loved
00:55:24The
00:55:24Most
00:55:25No
00:55:26Matter
00:55:26How
00:55:27Hard
00:55:27Steph
00:55:28Tried
00:55:28To
00:55:28Make
00:55:29Their
00:55:29Relationship
00:55:30A
00:55:30Place
00:55:30Of
00:55:31Safety
00:55:32And
00:55:32Peace
00:55:34Dean
00:55:35Didn't
00:55:35Want
00:55:36Safety
00:55:39He
00:55:40Was
00:55:40Willing
00:55:41To
00:55:41Go
00:55:42Places
00:55:43That
00:55:44Before
00:55:44Were
00:55:45Just
00:55:45Too
00:55:46Frightening
00:55:53That's
00:55:55The
00:55:55Moment
00:55:55Where
00:55:56He's
00:55:57Untethered
00:55:58Literally
00:55:59Untethered
00:56:08He
00:56:08Was
00:56:09Pushing
00:56:09The
00:56:10Edge
00:56:10So
00:56:11Far
00:56:11Out
00:56:13That
00:56:14He
00:56:14Took
00:56:15The
00:56:15Tether
00:56:15Off
00:56:18Tether
00:56:19Tether
00:56:25Tether
00:56:34I don't know.
00:56:57Where? Where? Where?
00:57:03Where? Where?
00:57:21Dean was in a bad way.
00:57:25I started to realize his only therapy was the death consequence.
00:57:51When I'm leashless out on the line, or on the rock, free solo, I need total concentration.
00:58:07Or I'll die.
00:58:11Somehow, when my life's on the line, it brings my senses to a heightened state of calmness and clarity.
00:58:28It's the most powerful feeling I've ever experienced.
00:58:33Where?
00:58:36Where?
00:58:40Where?
00:58:41Where?
00:58:42Where?
00:58:44Where?
00:58:48Where?
00:58:50Where?
00:58:52Where?
00:59:00Where?
00:59:02Where?
00:59:16When's he?
00:59:18Where?
00:59:24Where?
00:59:26Where?
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