Wingsuit deaths: Dean Potter killed in Yosemite park
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2015
- Dean Potter, the extreme athlete who made a name for himself with stunts like this has died - one of fifty wingsuit flyers who have in the last 18 months alone paid the ultimate price for their sport.Sign up for Snowmail, your daily preview of what is on Channel 4 News, sent straight to your inbox, here: mailing.channel4.com/public/sn...
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If you knock on deaths' door, dont be suprised if he answers.
i don't think anyone was... he talked about death in the video... that's kind of the whole point. did you watch the video? or just come here to rag on someone who's died?
@@thatpacho You dont think? That's fine by me, and whilst your busy attempting poorly formed thoughts and justifications spare a thought for the families of these adrenaline-junkies who have to live under the weight of their deaths.
Don't roll dice with life...... at some point, your number will come up.
Try harder script writer!
When I was younger I used to sport skydive, which was all about safety.
In my opinion; wing suits give the flier a false feeling of security.
Maybe, I’ve just gotten old.
@@thescriptwriter824 Yeah you tell him and his grieving family! I'm sure the man is reading this comment from heaven right now and feels so ashamed and petrified by your brilliant sanctimony. You just owned him big time buddy. Congrats.
The dog didn't ask to be strapped and to be thrown into the air. He must have been petrified. Glad he survived.
I'm not so sure. Having owned three Blue Heelers (all died from cancer in old age), I would dare to suggest Whisper was likely delighted with her flight. Blue Heelers crave adventure. If their human handler is game, so are they.
The dog died too 😢
It seems like it was extremely excited and was jumping all over him in that clip.
Vegans unite! Animals don't ask to be taken advantage of and killed!
Almost 50 died in last 18 months ! Doesn't sound like a safe hobby.
Probably the most unsafe hobby
Nearly 50 could be 10
Look at wright bros
We think & brains in 100 year leap.how come brain now never conceived NAPOLEON perimeter defense.100 year interval all we do.50 look back at this same way wright bro we do now.next dweebs we must leave alone immerse in phone interface,they will become IT
Alcohol kills more people
@@nataliezementbeisser1492 percentage of people who do it compared to how many directly die from it? I doubt it
@@cardinality1975 Doesn't matter. Alcohol kills more people. Life is risky anyways.
the guy with a daughter wised up....Great for him...A true sign of maturity....
I been waiting a decade , my daughter turns 18 in 1 months and I'm buying my wing suit.
Kids are far from being grown up at 18. Legally, sure. But far from NEEDING their parents! So pretty sure you do not GET what the original poster was saying sadly. Stay safe!
Cheers!
@@sixfigureskibum .............and im flying 9 inches off the face of cliffs at mach speeds!!!! Damnit!!!! And you're gonna like it!!! lol
Live the dream. Disregard the haters.
And then the dream becomes your worst nightmare.
I don’t understand why he would take his dog
He doesnt have a kid to take. Er um didnt.
Save him going all the way back up for it ..
Selfish human treating a dog like a person.
If he had a baby im sure he would be stupid enough to take a long with him. Ppl like him treat pets like they are expendable
@@olnbgy4444
Sad.
fucking proximity flying smh. Aren't wingsuits exciting enough without taking reckless risks like flying as close as possible to cliffs?
losepoundsandinches okay let me shut you down right here, adrenaline is a side affect of the activity. It's about accomplishment, same as an Olympic diver, a painter, or a novelist. You set a goal and work for it. Dean often accomplished it. See he wasn't some couch junkie who weekend warrior these activities. He pioneered them. He held numerous records and accomplished feats few humans will ever be able to do. He worked hard and got bit with misfortune. You would never understand what it is like to devote your entire existence to accomplishing unreachable goals. Your name tells me you are JUST a fat piece of shit who loves Jesus and hates others, I doubt you ever reach any goal that requires more than a few minutes planning. As far as whisper is concerned , no other canine will ever get to experience that. That little DOG has done more than you ever will. Good luck sweating your chocolate cake out. Now you are gonna puff up get mad and not take anything to heart but seriously. As far as inspiration is concerned.. can you feel how worthless you are? May your life be beautiful and your outlook grow to be more pleasant.
Capn Bearkill Jumping off a cliff with an innocent dog in your back pack is an accomplishment?
Capn Bearkill leaving children fatherless is a great accomplishment?
Capn Bearkill Yes.!!! "That little DOG.." bit had me in stitches. The truth is fucking funny sometimes!
losepoundsandinches Why would he be mad? he's not the overweight person who's never going to achieve anything...
Never put his dog at risk? Oh, the idiocy of that statement.
There is such a thing as a safe base jump
People put themselves, their closest and their pets at risk all the time. Should a kid not bicycle to school as he may be hit by a car? Should a dog never be on a boat as it may drown? Going with a girlfriend on a motorbike? Reasonable risks are a necessary part of a life with other beings. What do you think the dog would have said if you could ask it?
@@sorenbiogascleanmunch5745 Yes, reasonable risks. That wouldn't include a sport with a 5% death rate.
@@SteepVisions not this one
@@eoghandridl1007 ?
I don't need to jump off a cliff to feel alive. But some people do. Everyone has their own definition of acceptable risk. Being in the military is risky. Driving a car is risky. We're free to make those choices. We accept risks for some form of benefit and it's often something very personal, maybe even spiritual.
He had choices…his poor dog didn’t have a voice to chose 😢😠
Often there is a fine line between bravery and stupidity, not in this case though.
Yeah, leans toward bravery. There's always those who want yell "stupid".
You're right. It was a slack line ;)
@@vincentdc211 pretty much everyone thinks it’s stupid except for adrenaline addicts.
why say here tho if not in this case
I love it. "The dog was never in danger in the wing suit" just exactly how did this guy finally commit suicide ?
An absolute scumbag to take the dog with him.
Dogs aren’t necessarily my favorite, but damn, they can’t say that they don’t want to be strapped to your back on a dive.
I hope you never own a dog.
@@Hummingbirds2023 why? Kind of a dumb thing to say. She’s not wrong 🤷♂️
@@Hummingbirds2023 I think you read it wrong at first, I did.
SO GLAD HIS DOG WAS NOT WITH HIM.
It was
@@hardcorehunter9438
No!!!! Please don't tell me that!!
Refreshingly level, rather than sensational, reporting on such a sport from national media.
Sensation is exposure
RUclips is 1 billion served
Person from every country watching cant do that on MSM cbs
50 died in 18 months...so what about friends and families who will have to live with their deaths for the rest of their lives...
This is a form of stealth suicide designed to make your death look heroic rather than foolish.
I was shocked to hear of Dean's death. I didn't realize that he was the guy who slack-lined between two pinnacles at Yosemite without a safety line and balancing pole. As short as his life was, he lived it to the full. So here is to a life well lived.
I read that Dean recently wrote in his blog. “Wingsuit BASE-jumping feels safe to me but 25 wingsuit-fliers have lost their lives, this year alone. There must be some flaw in our system, a lethal secret beyond my comprehension.”
I think I know what the problem may be - the degree of lift changes with the temperature of the air. Cold dense air gives more lift than less dense hot air. That may lead to less control of the steering of the wingsuit than wingsuit flyers realize.
It was reported that Dean and his friend were attempting to clear a "notch" on the mountain but slammed into the rock instead. So possibly what happened is that they thought they would have enough lift to clear the ridge but the air in that area was warmer and thus provided less lift.
That's why wingsuit flyers should refrain from flying in close proximity to terrain and trees.
***** So true dude, and trust me, they figure everything you just said, and then some, into their calculations before each and every jump...Hopefully we will know more soon, so the rest of us can learn from it. And no, I have never done the wing suit, but have BASE jumped numerous times...Thanks for your well thought out input....Impressive.
***** Why would anyone want to use a balancing pole while on a slack line?
morgan n I love witty humor. Deserving of a thumbs up.
Eddie Steele Thanks bro. For some reason your comment was flagged, so I just saw it now. Must have been Angella, the trolling queen.
***** You're welcome, dude. She just can't handle the truth. Oh wait, its probably a he using a girls pic...lol
Why involve your dog and risk it’s life?
Because it’s his dog
Because it's more gnarly with the dog BRO! Because Potter was a "pioneer"!
The fastest milkman in the West That’s you and once again it’s his dog you typed all of that for nothing
@@GITMDENZEL Yeah, because insecure men have to exert control. The only autonomy they respect is their own.
@The fastest milkman in the West Yeah, the dog has complete trust in an untrustworthy human. Same old story.
They died doing what they loved, smashing into rocks.
you again
not sure that's really any comfort, thinking you did it yourself!
lol
And what makes you think that a 95 year old didn't live his life to the fullest and doing what he loved ! What arrogance!
"A man who lives intensely really lives, but a man who lives to be 120 doesn't necessarily live at all." - E.E. Cummings
@@grippimatt And how do you know a man that lives to 120 didn't live intensely in his youth and in his nature years and intelligent enough to then live a long fulfilled life there after.
@@grippimatt e e cummings
O R
None of this is real, we are nothing
O R
Huh
50 deaths in 18 months!!!!!! stupid sport that kill more than plane accident
Kills more than anything else on the planet
Don’t take a dog in the sky ever. Jesus.
I know, what an asshole!
How do you get idiots to do stupid life threatening crap?
Call it an _extreme sport_.
Frankly I think there's a lot of narcissism involved in things like this.
Agreed. Narcissism, self-absorbed behavior, not caring what your loved ones feel when you die, there are far more sensible ways for safer thrills!
"Is not the so-called physical courage of risking death really a moral courage - the courage to commit one's self to a value greater than one's existence as such, and thus the courage to let go of one's life if need be?" - Rollo May
Narcissism involved in everything than
Taking risks is narcissism? It's literally his own body
Especially when strapping another living thing on your back. Control issues.
He died doing what he love, but did he love it when he knew he was dying?
Probably not, but it will have been seconds at most.
Yes
One report said the two of them were both killed on impact when they hit the wall. Moving that fast when you get ‘too close’ to the wall there is likely only a split second between that realization and unconsciousness.
mitch mclean dopey decision
If he did know he was gonna hit and die,Bim sure it only lasted for a nano second leaving zero time to think about it. We're all gonna die but how many of us die doing what we love. Safe to say not many. Fly in peace Dean and soar above the clouds forever friend 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🕊️🕊️
SInce i watched Potter doc on youtube years ago i would periodicaly check his wikipedia page to seeif he was still alive, then oneday i looked and saw that he had died. i wasn't surprised. god bless himthough
'God bless him', you say? If God existed, he'd be alive, don't you think?
@@fahadfaisal7855 Well,....no. People have been dying for quite some time, last time I checked.
@@fahadfaisal7855 terrible argument to try and disprove the existence of a god. Everyone who is born dies regardless if you believe or not.
@@fahadfaisal7855 "you are all gods, sons of the most high, but you shall die like men" - psalms 82-6
@@fahadfaisal7855 such stupid and common response from an Atheist. Should GOD stop every bad thing that happens because if he did no human would have a freedom of choice and decision making. By definition if God saves/intervene he has to in intervene in all for it to be fare. You don't even know what you are asking because you haven't thought through it. By law of mathematical probability the chance that Universe came to be by itself is so small it is virtually zero. And multiverse is BS.
Glad the dog's ok
Damn that guy is crazy.
Look up Uli Emanuele too
Was crazy
if you like risking youre life dont take youre dog off a cliff just get a drug habbit like the rest of us
So sad I always thought that it will be only a matter of time that his life stops because of an accident caused by himself. Wingsuit flying with the aim to come to the ground as near as possible is Russian roulett not more not less. I ask how he had developed and what he could give the world and his beloved if he would have become older and wiser and more responsible. In the end this Dean lost the game far to early in a brutal way. There is no hero there is no glory about his death at all!
R.I.P
We agree with you 100% "Eflodur" -- well stated.
All these people are incredibly selfish towards loved ones or anyone that cares about them.
@Eflodur, Truer words escape me. You nailed it!
This video from Real Sports interviewing wingsuit jumpers who are the surviving friends and loved ones of those who have died is telling. They all sound like drug addicts addicted to the next hit of heroin who have seen plenty die but cannot imagine their lives without it. ruclips.net/video/QBOccBN2CWU/видео.html
You are correct, it is a selfish waste of one's life and needlessly tortures the loved ones they leave behind for their reckless pursuit of the next high.
It's never good when you suddenly come to a stop very fast.
As my Dad used to say: Its not the fall that kills you, its the sudden stop at the end..
Base jumping is like playing Russian Roulette. I don't feel sorry for the people that die doing this, but do feel bad for their families and the guy that has to scrape the body off the rock and pack it out.
While this was a brief video I'll say it's about the best I've seen in terms of not sensationalizing or condemning these athletes. Well done.
When these men died I was overwhelmed by the amount of hate spewed their way. Of course, I understand why. It's self-preservation. People don't like being reminded that some choose a different path...a path that only a small percentage have the physical and emotional fortitude to handle. But what I don't get is when courage, preparation, training and commitment became something to put down and not admired.
I will say this though. I 'get" wingsuit flying. I don't get proximity flying. Go farther, faster and longer. Not closer.
They can't handle the impact though. The fortitude is useless there
I was in the valley that day, watching climbers with binoculars at El Capitan. I remember hearing the helicopters searching for him and his friend for quite a while.
It was eerie that the other fellow died along with him on his last flight also
Point well taken about how close death always is.
He finally achieved oneness with nature
@@fpscanada3862 you'd rather he just jump off with nothing?
@@fpscanada3862 HE merged with the natural worms eating him
To each their own
When did this happen?
It’s a very selfish thing to do especially if you have a family and kids. Because they won’t stop until they are killed... f--that!
As Clint once said, “dying ain’t much of a living”!
Amen to that.
and that's why i use an E scooter, for the thrill of a near death experience
Can we get a heads up to the folks involved to start using super slow motion. Would be wonderful to see some of the many mishaps up close and personal in slow motion. For us spectating that would be just wonderful way to enhance the experience for the spectators.
0:37, Shoulda listened to your dog when he tried to bite you in the face 0:37 after you let him out of the suit
Gravity; itsheavy!
absentmindedprof Gravity lets you down
Gravity sucks!
People who have heart attacks or cancer or other serious illnesses are fighting for their lives , yet these guys are throwing their lives away.
One could argue being 400 lbs w zero quality of life under going endless surgeries and hospital stays until a premature end is also throwing their lives away.
Yeah, they ain’t brave- they’re rich and have a lot of time on their hands for leisure pursuits.
@jstpgms dude yeah it does
@jstpgms so u should be cool with being a privileged tool while you’re here?
@jstpgms no that’s your mom boo
peoples stupidity is too common today
I wonder if he felt stupid just before he hit the rocks? This is not a sport; it’s thrill seeking. I’m not impressed.
Wingsuits aren't what's dangerous. What's dangerous is all these guys who are constantly trying to one-up each other with more extreme stunts. The sport attracts reckless people.
Most people die of old age, in poor health mentally, emotionally, and physically.
This seems like a much better way to go.
Have at it. Today.
NOT when you've only lived about half your life, no matter HOW you've lived it!
@Super Saitama Wow atleast he lived his life, have some respect to the dead or do you just enjoy being a egotistical asshole?
I'm old ,in poor health mentally,emotionally and physically and thinking of ending it all,can you recommend a cheap and cheerful wingsuit?
How can you even say that though? Dean died when he was 43 years old, and many others die much younger than that. He still had another 30 years of good health in his life left. Why would it be better to die young just because you might not have to deal with something else later in life?
That dog lived more than most humans.
Andy Stumpf recently said he had "paused" wingsuit flying, following the death of a friend who died flying a wingsuit.
To compare the stuff he was doing to Alex Honold of climbing or Dane Jackson of kayaking misses the point, totally. Manageable risk is way the F different from un managed risk. Pretty simple. Is it in your hands, or in the hands of chance?
It's all the same. Free soloing or wingsuit flying are two sports with virtually zero room for error or bad luck. There is no rope to catch you.
Alex H went splat.
We all die some sooner than others. That said I would not want my kids doing this as we all know how it ends. I have done my own share of risky activities rock climbing when I was young,.and yes I came close to death twice. If you stay at a risky sport the clock is ticking, the clock always wins.
How delusional these people can be
When I see his dog wiggling and hopping and licking him after a flight, I don't think it's because the poor dog loved it. I think the dog was so relieved to be on the ground again with him. Absolutely messed up to strap your dog to you and repeatedly terrify him. Just plain wrong.
50 deaths in 18 months? Careful planning doesn't seem to work. This "special and unique" group of people "living their life to the fullest" have found an exciting way to thin the heard. Especially since what is on the other side of life is never considered. All in the name of excitement and getting on RUclips. What a time we live in.
It’s easy to be snarky online where you’re comfortably anonymous (and binge watching RUclips because you have no productive hobbies) but the dude lived a full life of adventure that didn’t endanger others.
I think when some people are snarky online they do it because they are unhappy with their own situation, some people have it tough growing up and have all kinds of mental issues, so they might write a bad comment one day. I think that the answer is not to give them further things to hate themselves about, but be the person to break the cycle and show someone love when they seem to deserve it the least.
Guess that doesn`t include Dogs ???????
@@joseph1845 U dudes are the ones being 'snarky'... the guy would've taken his 'stunt' back if he could've and NEVER been in suit again...
Nope, proximity flying is for the mentally unstable, and Aussie heelers were not bred to 'fly'.....
Ivan McGuire sums it all up with his last recorded words.
No more false 'highs' for this dude....bet he wished he had more.
Degrees of assumed safety and degrees of luck (unpredictability) is involved in many things. Wings suits have the same amount of variables plus one or two, but far less controls than say skydiving, hang gliding, gliders , plane flying, motorcycles and more. So if one of their variables changes or they make a momentarily significant error there is no other control, or extra time to use to try and overcome the moment.
We face death every day? Not like that, dude.
Thats one way to make an impact!
He quite literally made an impact!
R.I.P Legend
Id like to write a book about this. Has it been taken yet?
So where is the footage of his crash?
If it helps, the dog doesn't seem to have gone along on this final ride. He apparently only took her on normal jumps, not those that were "death-defying". So there's that.
Luckily, the asshole's dog is still alive, not having been conscripted on yet another of his selfish stunts.
True this man was selfish and wacked
No splat footage? Dang.
Well at least he won't be abusing that poor dog anymore.
I don't know, for some reason this makes me think of Josie Wales and Ten Bears. "There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."
That's how I feel about Deans death, there was iron in his words of Life and Death.
I don't know why people are hating in the comments, it was his life he lived it the way he wanted.
He put his dog's life at risk though.
Can't imagine the dog enjoying that...
It’s not fair to the workers who have to scrape them up off the rocks !
I look at it as just too unpredictable. Case in point I was watching the video of three guys flying and one of them almost flys into a cable car. Later on the ground the guy said “ for some reason I just started to veer to the right”. If it’s that unpredictable I thinks it’s too dangerous. That being said if you wab]not fly and not endanger anyone else go for it.
RIP, You lived more in your short years then most do in a full lifetime , I like to believe your flying with the stars now
so what - hes dead & he destroyed his family
Poor dog. Was he killed too? What an asshole thing to do. Now the dog is either dead or out of his owner.
The dog was not with him on the fatal jump.....
Dog gained some smarts ! 😇
“The Men Who Fell To Earth” - R.I.P.
Shame on him for subjecting a dog to his choices.
Hey. Look at me. I’m flying with my dog. Aren’t you impressed.
A bit off topic but my dad was taking some trash to the tip. He just pulled out of a junction in his car after checking the road was clear and a speeding motorcyclist suddenly came from his right as he pulled out. My dad tried to get out the way but the motorbike was going to fast and clipped my dad's car wing mirror. That was enough at that speed to throw him (biker) straight on to the road and killed him. He had young kids. What are they thinking when they take these risks. Far too fast and looking for the thrill rather than their common sense.
He lived life to the fullest, anyone criticizing Potter have no idea what that means!
Heroin addicts also die doing what they love.
Whatever... guaranteed... he'd take his stunt back if he could...
Hard to feel bad for anyone killed doing this.
don’t think it would make a difference to anything whether your sympathy is given or not
You know what's a real head rush? When your head rushes into the ground...
What EXACTLY happened
He flew into rock of death
They don't take risks? Um ok.
It’s not if it’s when ...get your estate in order if your doing this 😯
"There are no second chances"
I read about deaths of this nature, shrug and move on to the next article. When somebody says "I'm going to go out and spend a ton of money so that I can jump off a mountain"... it seems so deliberately self-indulgent and self-destructive that I cannot relate to it, cannot encourage it, and giggle when the inevitable happens. "Well, what did you expect to happen, idiot?" I think.
For those who get away with this nonsense once, a nuclear physicist remarked "When playing Roulette, the fact that the first shot got off safely is little consolation to the next player".
I think the idea is facing all of that fear though.
You play with fire, you get burnt.
R.I.P legend
The man was an idiot who didn't care what damage he did to delicate arch. Who reimburses the government for the search and rescue/recovery expenses for his reckless nature and breaking the rules of the park regarding wingsuit jumps?
True. You right
At least they already in the body bag.
Anybody capture the video of his fall to death? Be a good video to teach people what not to do.
I really hope his dog was not with him at the time.
Needing that level of extreme stimulation suggests chronic discontent, low mood or depression.
Is there any vid available from the Fly? Must be analyzed what went wring! Rip
taxlawSEAL Steuerberater What went wrong? The guy had a death wish. Humans weren't meant to fly. All these wing suit flyers will smash into rock at high speeds soon enough.
taxlawSEAL Steuerberater I'm pretty sure both those guys had on go pro cameras, but we might not ever see the footage.
I wanna See it! Spectacular shots!
I live about 10 mins outside of yosemite and we've all been talking about what happened. The best we can come up with from knowing where they jumped was that they fell to low and lost altitude and clipped the top of the rock face. The park rangers said it took over a day before they were able to recover the bodies. So sad but they died doing what they loved....
Thx for this intimitate Information!
He and his flying partner had made this flight before. Wikipedia says he needed to make it through a gap in the particular mountain and "missed the gap"!
Boy, that paints a picture!
It also paints a mountain.
Love it! Just a temporary stain, and then nothing.
A form of Russian Roulette.
Carl Hopkinson, Russian Roulette probably better odds?
Smokey 66
Nah, 1 in 20 wingers die
Clayton Brown, what’s the odds on Honnold or free soloists in general?
Smokey 66
Honnold is an anomaly, there has never been nor will there ever be anyone like him. If any other free soloists tried a tenth of what he’s already accomplished most, if not all, would die.
Clayton Brown, I agree, even when I was watching “Free Solo” the third time I was still afraid he was going to fall. His skills make Lebron James, Tom Brady and Connor McGregor etc look like they are playing in a sand box with shovels and a bucket. I just watched a video, First 5.15” where commenters where putting Honnold down because he never climbed a 5.15, they didn’t mention the people they were praising used ropes and fixed clip ins during the entire route.
Take the sport out of the equation for a minute and imo there seems to be a melancholy sadness around these people who feel they have to push boundaries to feel happy? There’s also the inherent belief in most of that it will never happen to us? No there’s something more to this imo which is recognition or else whyave it filmed at all? Folk will cling on to life at all costs and to try and minimise it by quoting that dying is natural is talk of someone who doesn’t even think of his family and loved ones
Crazy….