#dean-potter

#dean-potter

"I had mixed feelings when Alex came around. You know, partially I was like, f-k. I wanted that. Another part was just like, that's the way it goes. You know, Alex has been real competitive with me, trying to do things that he knows I want to do and you know he's younger, he's real competitive ... He knew that was my life's goal, and he did it before me because he was a competitive, kind of like, twerp."

"At his peak, Dean Potter was a figure similar to Alex Honnold-the leading free-soloist in the game. But he was also a much more enigmatic and eccentric character than Honnold. It is also true that Potter remains one of the all-time great culture heroes of American rock-climbing."