{"id":187933,"date":"2025-10-03T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187933\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:35:11","slug":"balin-miller-popular-mountain-climber-falls-to-death-during-live-stream-of-ascent-in-yosemite-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187933\/","title":{"rendered":"Balin Miller: Popular mountain climber falls to death during live stream of ascent in Yosemite National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rising star in the world of rock climbing has fallen to his death in tragic circumstances at one of the sports most challenging peaks.<\/p>\n

Canadian extreme sports specialist, Balin Miller, had reached the peak of the world\u2019s largest granite monolith in California\u2019s Yosemite National Park when a gear mishap brought him unstuck.<\/p>\n

Mr Miller has reportedly completed the ascension of the Sea of Dreams, on the infamous El Capitan route, when he fell hundreds of metres to his death.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, the whole event was being live-streamed, and although law officials are yet to confirm the any findings surrounding the incident, witnesses watching on offered opinions on what they observed.<\/p>\n

In a post on Facebook, photographer Tom Evans claimed Miller had actually finished the ascent before attempting to haul his bag of gear up when it got stuck.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went down his lead line to clear it. His rope didn\u2019t reach the bag\u2019s location by many feet, but he seemed unaware of the fact,\u201d Mr Evans wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the way down, he rappelled off the end of the rope.\u201d<\/p>\n

News.com.au<\/a> reports that the awful moments as Mr Miller fell were captured on a TikTok livestream by a Yosemite enthusiast named Eric, who was watching the climb through a telescope.<\/p>\n

Around 500 people were watching the stream when the incident occurred but over 100,000 people had been watching Miller\u2019s exploits in Yosemite at various times that week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with a heavy heart I have to tell you my incredible son, Balin Miller, died during a climbing accident today,\u201d said Mr Miller\u2019s mother via Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is shattered (into) a million pieces. I don\u2019t know how I will get through this \u2026 I love him so much. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

His brother, Dylan Miller, spoke about his brother and his love for the sport that eventually claimed his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe felt most alive when he was climbing,\u201d Dyan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m his bigger brother but he was my mentor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balin Miller made history when he ascended solo to Slovak Direct, an incredibly challenging climb 2700 metres up McKinley in Alaska.<\/p>\n

He completed the gruelling challenge in 56 hours and rose to stardom in the climbing ranks after also completing a solo climb up the French Connection on Mount Hunter.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had probably one of the most impressive last six months of climbing of anyone that I can think of,\u201d Alaskan alpinist Clint Helander told the Anchorage Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe his inspired so many people to do things that are perhaps unthinkable, including myself. I can\u2019t imagine climbing ever again without him,\u201d his bother Dylan added.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s death happened on the first day of the US government shutdown, with federal authorities opening the parks but with limited operations.<\/p>\n

The National Park Service said \u201crangers and emergency personnel responded immediately\u201d following the incident.<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old was killed while solo climbing without a rope at a different formation at Yosemote this year, while in August, a woman died when a tree branch struck her on a hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rising star in the world of rock climbing has fallen to his death in tragic circumstances at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-187933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}