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Photos: Dean Potter killed in Yosemite

Dean Potter executes a free solo climb and jump with parachute in summer 2008 at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland.

Dean Potter executes a free solo climb and jump with parachute in summer 2008 at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland.

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Extreme athlete Dean Potter and another man killed in BASE-jumping accident in Yosemite.

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Colin Switzer, left, and Shawn Walters, friends of extreme athletes Dean Potter and Graham Hunt, pay their respects at a memorial on top of Taft Point in Yosemite National Park. Potter and Graham died Saturday in a BASE-jumping accident at the park.

  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

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A couple embrace while looking down the Yosemite Valley.

  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Dean Potter in 2008

Dean Potter carries out the first-ever free solo climb of the Eiger with parachute in August 2008 in Switzerland.

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Dean Potter in 2004

Dean Potter “highlining” at the Three Gossips in Arches National Park in Utah in 2004.

  (Barcroft / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Dean Potter

Dean Potter carries out the first-ever free solo climb of the Eiger with parachute (freebase) in August 2008 in Switzerland.

  (Barcroft Media / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Dean Potter

Dean Potter is shown at Yosemite, slack lining in 1998.

  (Kevin Wells / For The Times)

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