<p><br> Walking a slackline can be hard enough. For pioneering rock climber Dean Potter, one of our 2009 <a href="http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-the-year/dean-potter-2009/">Adventurers of the Year</a>, walking a highline, untethered, at 10,000-plus-feet-high on Cathedral Peak in Yosemite, California, is just another day of his truly incredible way of life.</p>

Highlining at Cathedral Peak, Yosemite, California


Walking a slackline can be hard enough. For pioneering rock climber Dean Potter, one of our 2009 Adventurers of the Year, walking a highline, untethered, at 10,000-plus-feet-high on Cathedral Peak in Yosemite, California, is just another day of his truly incredible way of life.

Photograph by Mikey Schaefer

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