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THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN FLY

By Katie Arnold

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Dean Potter is having a bad day. It's a blue-sky, late-June morning in Yosemite National Park, and the rock climber is supposed to be up on El Capitan. His plan was to become the first person to walk a highline—basically a wobblier version of a circus tightrope—from one rocky ledge to another along the 3,000-foot-high, legendary cliff face, but he stayed out all night with friends and is in rough shape. Now he's standing at El Cap's base, bleary-eyed and reeling from the implosion, j ...

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