Follow Your Tweeps

    One of the persons I chose to follow on Twitter and add to my Tweeps list is Cody Lundin. Cody Lundin is very well known in the survival world as being one of the top survivalist and survival school instructors in the free world. Cody has been acknowledged and featured in many different national and international media sources to include The Today Show, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The New York Times and many others. Fit Magazine wrote the following about Cody Lundin, “Cody Lundin is one of the foremost authorities on primitive and modern survival skills.” http://www.codylundin.com/bio.html

    Cody Lundin also is one of two stars on the Discovery Channel hit show, Dual Survival, where he and fellow survivalist Dave Canterbury head out into some of the most extreme environments on Earth and demonstrate to viewers what skills are necessary to survive in the wilderness for an extended period of time with limited survival tools.

    

    On top of being a cast member of Dual Survival, Cody Lundin also runs and teaches at his own survival school here in Prescott, Arizona where he instructs course students on how to survive in desert environments using Aboriginal survival skills. When not staring on the Discovery Channel or teaching at his own school, Cody Lundin is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at Ecosa Institute.

    I also chose to follow professional American free climber, alpinist, BASE Jumper, BASEliner, and highliner Dean Potter. Like survivalist Cody Lundin, Climber Dean Potter has been featured in several well-known outdoor and rock climbing magazines and also has appearances on several television networks to include Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel.

    Outside Magazine did an article on the talents of Dean Potter in December of 2002 where they titled the column Climbing at the speed of soul. In the article, the following was written about Dean Potter, "With his supreme skills on rock, hypercompetitive intensity, and new-age bag of tricks, Dean Potter scrambles up big walls faster than any man alive." http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/rock-climbing/Climbing-at-the-Speed-of-Soul.html?page=all

    Dean Potter has made several notable ascents on very well-known mountains throughout the world, to include but not limited to being. The first person to ascend Cerro Fitz Roy in the Andes Mountains of Patagonia at the far Southern tip of South America. He is also well noted for making the very first ascent of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park where he has lived for the past 18 years. Glacier Point is a Granite rock face which rises 3,200 vertical feet above the Yosemite Valley.

    National Geographic Channel recently aired a program on February 12, 2012 about Dean Potter which followed him in his pursuit to break his previously held world record for longest free-fall flight time during a BASE jump. In the summer of 2009, Dean ascended the 13,025 ft. Eiger of the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, where he conducted a BASE jump from its peak and flew for a total of 2 minutes and 50 seconds setting a world record where he freefell for 9,000 vertical feet and flew for nearly six kilometers before deploying his parachute to float safely to the ground below. 

     Below is a video link produced by National Geographic about Dean Potter's world record BASE jump in August of 2009.