Hello world! It is me again; I hope you are doing great! in my last post I upload a video about Dean Potter, and in this I am going to talk about it; now maybe you are asking, who is Dean Potter?
The 28 years old Dean is a legend of the BASE jumping, he combine extreme activities like walking in a rope in the middle of a canyon before throwing himself of unreasonable heights to practice the BASE jumping sport. He also invented the wing suit; this suit makes the effect of wings that make you feel that you are flying when you throw yourself in the middle of nowhere.
Dean can be even flying through the air in a wing-suit or balancing on a 30-foot long ‘slack lines’ hundreds of feet above a valet floor. But once, one of his most spectacular jumps was on the 13,000 feet Eiger Mountain in Switzerland using for first time his free-base climbing method, this mean, with not security on him.
Dean is constantly pushing the boundaries of human limit, Dean always make public amazing photographs of his abilities, this pictures are captures by his friend and climbing college Beat Kammerlander,
Now I am going to tell you more about the wing-suit, this ideas I found it completely interesting. The wing-suit “shapes the human body into an airfol which can create the lift. The wing-suit creates the airfol with fabric between the legs and under the arms. The public may control commonly refer to a wing-suit as bird man suit or squirrel suit” (Bird-man).
To finish, I only remember you that if you want to practice BASE jumping don’t forget your security suit and incredible desires of experimenting something new. So try it!
Let’s go, wherever you jump; take only pictures, leave only footprints!
Yaressi Treviño
Bibliography
BirdMan. 2011. <http://www.bird-man.com/wingsuit/>.
Service, Mail Foreing. Mail Online. 20 April 2010. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267478/Climber-Dean-Potter-scales-Eiger-safety-equipment-jumps-off.html>.
Wow! Your topic is very entertaining! I loved the video, by the way. It takes a lot of guts to do all the things that he does. All these activities he does look very fun, but at the same time kinda scary. I'd love to try flying in a wing-suit, it looks really fun and , since it's the closest thing to flying, I'd love to do so. I think three men tried flying in wing-suits here in Monterrey, but the wind blew pretty hard and they couldn't control their flight. They were separated and some got stuck in trees. After one returned to civilization, he asked for help and they searched around the perimeter to find the rest. It is good to know that they found them very quickly and that nobody got hurt. This proves that it is very important to also consider other factors, such as wind speed and weather.
ResponderEliminarI'm really liking your blog, keep up the good work! :)