Dean Potter died last week trying to pull off one of his signature, daring BASE jumps. A year before, he and I acted as pallbearers for a wing suit jumper—one of his best friends—who’d suffered the same fate.
“They’re missing,” Charley Kurlinkus, a BASE jumper and friend of Dean Potter’s told me over the phone at 11 p.m. on Saturday. Dean and Graham Hunt had jumped from Taft point, a promontory 3,000 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor.
