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Alex Honnold: What risk means after dean Potter 3-Jun-2015 At 1:35:28 PM martym

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I watched his interview on CNN & then came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16fKN7qM34 about Dean Potter, where he mentions death several times, including talking about seeing Dan Osman dead with blood weeping from his eyes like tears. Potter says "I don't want that to happen, not ever." Poignant but also emblematic of how serious he took his activities.
In the same video he bails on a highline after a pulley breaks and he decides he's not in the right frame of mind.

A video about Alex Lowe summed it up well where another climber described his death:
"I'll bet that 3 seconds before the avalanche struck, Alex would have been so excited, thinking I'm here with great friends in this beautiful place. What more could you want?"
I imagine the last moments in Potter's life were similar.