Skiing and the Outdoors' Endless Struggle Between Art and Commerce: A View Through Dean Potter and "The Dark Wizard"

“I’m trying to leave this body’s limitations; trying to go beyond the physical and not be hindered by this carcass,” the late, legendary climber Dean Potter says in the sweeping HBO documentary The Dark Wizard, eyes looking to the ceiling in contemplation. “The mind can bring you beyond the body.”Potter was a master of the megalithic walls of Yosemite and the ochre-tinged boulders of Hueco Tanks; venues that have forged more than a few climbers. It’s par