Senior member Potter Dead: Extreme Sports Legend Among 2 Killed In Yosemite BASE Jumping Accident, A Yosemite National Park representative says amazing competitor Dean Potter and another man have passed on in a BASE hopping mischance.
The representative says Potter and Graham Hunt passed on late Saturday in the wake of endeavoring a wingsuit flight from a 7,500-foot projection called Taft Point.
An inquiry and-salvage mission started overnight when the jumpers' spotter lost contact with them. Teams discovered their bodies Sunday in the Yosemite Valley. No parachutes had been conveyed.
Potter is famous for his strong and now and then rebel trips and BASE hops, in which he would parachute from a settled structure or bluff. BASE bouncing is illicit in Yosemite.
Potter was 43. He finished solo risings and tightrope strolls over a percentage of the world's most acclaimed rocks, and as of late showed up in a film BASE hopping with his puppy.
An inquiry and-salvage mission started overnight when the jumpers' spotter lost contact with them. Teams discovered their bodies Sunday in the Yosemite Valley. No parachutes had been conveyed.
Potter is famous for his strong and now and then rebel trips and BASE hops, in which he would parachute from a settled structure or bluff. BASE bouncing is illicit in Yosemite.
Potter was 43. He finished solo risings and tightrope strolls over a percentage of the world's most acclaimed rocks, and as of late showed up in a film BASE hopping with his puppy.
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