Daredevils | Climbing the Delicate Arch | Channel 4

Daredevill, Dean Potter, climbs Utah's famous Delicate Arch to inspire and motivate people, however his actions spark outrage and crticism of climbing a sacred site

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[b4igetu]

They get mad because it is sacred to the local community, yet how much land do they plow away for their damn malls

[PackardDog]

Have the climbers ever buit roads into yosemite? Do climbers polute the air with tour buses? Did climbers want to plow over camp 4 to build dormatories? Did climbers carve fkn obnoxious faces into Mt rushmore? Did climbers ever want anything more than to just be in nature, in tune with the rock and left the fk alone?

Dean buddy; Don't listen to these ignorants. Keep pushing the bounderies bro! Reach for YOUR stars and fk the people who try to keep you down bro!!

[b4igetu]

@awquity Fuck bolts you damn pussy!!!

[b4igetu]

@THELORDOFEXCESS and who's to say other people haven't climbed it before? hell those rope marks could have been left by someone else. We destroy land so tourists can get to the top of cliffs, maybe we should say fuck them and climb the bloody thing if you want the same view as climber so we don't ruin the beauty

[b4igetu]

@THELORDOFEXCESS I'm not saying we shouldn't preserve beautiful places, but 90% of the tourists could have their face planted in this rock and notice the damage, so no one would have even known if the news didn't have flip out about it. At least he isn't a sport climber and fired 40 bolts into the arch!!

[janonyme1]

goes to show how stupid things are in America! It's a piece of rock! I think it was an awesome climb. Dean Potter's an ace in my book!

[MySimpleNeeds]

If you ever decide to wear a shirt while you climb, click on my name to go to our channel and check out our rappelling/rock climbing shirts--and the Vietnamese model we enlisted to show them off!

[HiddenBowrain]

@THELORDOFEXCESS It is not illegal to climb it. His intentions weren't even bad. And why can't we climb rocks if companies and the goverment place concrete ontop of nearly everything. If the goverment arrested him for destroying something than that is pure irony.

[THELORDOFEXCESS]

Climbers have caused huge, irreparable damage all over the place. Certain places are dedicated to climbing and certain places aren't it is that simple. Because you think its ok to do whatever you want because you enjoy it ... doesn't make it ok. This belongs to everyone not just climbers. Allowing people to climb on it WILL do damage to it over time, end of story. Idiots like you make all climbers look bad. Read a book sometime, educate yourself before you call others ignorant ... bro.

[THELORDOFEXCESS]

Straw man argument there. How would people react if someone decided to add some paint to the Mona Lisa? Even if this guy didn't do a single bit of damage if everyone was allowed to climb it wouldn't be long before we knock it down. There are endless places to climb for people, endless less sensitive yet just as challenging places. We need to preserve some places as they are don't we? Because we have plenty of malls and plenty of climbing parks can't we have pristine places too?

[granit133]

I didn't know Bear Grylls was a climber