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  • I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.

    Moving   Weather   Guy  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a recurring dream. It's mostly that. That desire to be as free as the birds, to be unhindered. I started off as - and am still - a free solo climber. So being in the air is a huge fear of mine. So there's a combination of going toward my fear as well as being fascinated with the air.

    Dream   Thinking   Air  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.

    Fall   Mean   Essence  
    "Dean Potter, in his own words: I dream of feathers sprouting on my arms", www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2015.
  • Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

    Dog   Climbing   Trying  
  • For some reason, BASE jumping is misunderstood and our government forbids it and makes it illegal in most every place in the country. So I'm kind of a criminal here in the United States for pursuing the dream of flight, but everywhere else I go, every other country, I'm kind of looked up to, or fascinated with for the flying that I do.

    Dream   Country   Jumping  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games, or practicing two polar opposite arts. One is the art of not falling. The other one is flying. With both those things spinning in my mind, there's a lot to process and it's pretty mind-boggling.

    Art   Fall   Opposites  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.

  • It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

    Father   Men   Flying  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

    Moving   Ravens   Long  
  • We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.

    Thinking   Space   Years  
  • I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that - the pressure change and the moon and the wind and whether a storm is moving in on us - if we just are close enough to nature.

    Strong   Moving   Moon  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

  • I was taking my advance freefall course, doing my level 1 jump. My heart was racing. Like I said, I have a lot of fear with falling, so I panicked. Then I let go of the door of the airplane and kind of panicked the entire way. But after a few jumps I grew more calm, realized what was going on, and I think that was the key. The more calm I got, the more relaxed I was.

    Letting Go   Fall   Heart  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe.

    Rays   Connections   Sun  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
  • Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

    Wings   Shadow   Lines  
  • The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.

    Art   Air   Anxiety  
    Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
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