The death of Balin Millerand mountaineer 23 -year -old American generates shock. The young man He died after suffering a tragic fall while He broadcast live in your account of Tiktok730 meters high, from the top of The Captainthe emblematic vertical rock formation of the Yosemite National Park of California, United States.
The news was confirmed by their parents, David Miller and Jeanine Girard-Morman, through a publication on social networks. «With great regret we have to tell you that our incredible and beloved son died during an escalation accident today,» they said in a Facebook post.
Balin Miller, the young man of the orange tent, as they called him on the networks. (Photos: Instagram @Balin.miller)«We have a shattered heart, we just want to wake up from this horrible nightmare and we don’t know how we are going to overcome this,» they said.
«For those of you who only knew him as a climber, he was much more: he had a great personality, he was kind, he loved animals, and he was an incredible athlete,» they described.
In frozen cascades or immense rock walls, he was a young man who loved climbing. (Photos: Instagram @Balin.miller)The tragic event occurred on Wednesday while Miller made a solo ascension with rope, the technique known as lead rope soloingon the route Sea of Dreamsone of the most techniques of the southeast face of El Captain, in Yosemite National Park. The live broadcast of his escalation was being seen by more than 500 people.
Tom Evansa young photographer who was an indirect witness of the tragedy, said that many climbers who were suspended in the immense rocky wall saw the deadly fall.
Balin Miller used to register in Tiktok each of his escalations. (Photos: Instagram @Balin.miller)According to Evans on Facebook and then confirmed the magazine ClimbingBalin descended along his main rope without realizing that it did not reach the location of the duffel bag. «It was in the final stretch of the climb, when he tried He fell into the void After passing the end of the rope. «
Michelle Derrick, a follower of the deceased mountaineer for several years, was the one who commented that Miller broadcast live at the time of his death. Its version of the facts coincides with that of the witnesses.
«He reached the top, but he had to recover his backpacks, since they were trapped in a rock when climbing them. When trying to recover them, he fell and died, all recorded in the live broadcast,» Derrick said in a Facebook post.
Who was Balin Miller, the mountaineer who died while broadcasting live from the cliff El Captain
Miller spent a large part of his childhood in Alaska, and inherited his passion for the mountainee of his father, who also climbed mountains since his adolescence, and used to organize expeditions with his older brother, Dylan Miller.
«He loved climbing with all his soul, and the mountain took it,» said Balin Miller’s mother.«He climbed since he was a child, his heart and soul were really dedicated to climbing, and it was never for money or fame. It was what he loved most, and finally the mountain took my son,” said his mother through social networks.
Despite his young age, the young man had already achieved several feats that made him highlight as a promise of international mountaineering.
The young man was a mountaineer and influencer for his achievements in mountaineering. (Photos: Instagram @Balin.miller)In June, he obtained worldwide recognition after promoting the Slovak Direct del Monte McKinleya route of more than 2,700 meters considered one of the hardest in the American continent, and managed to climb it after 56 hours of physical effort.
He also climbed in Patagonia and the Canadian rock mountains, where after seven days he reached the top of an icy cliff called Reality bath, a feat that had not been achieved in 37 yearsaccording to Climbing Magazine magazine.
This four -day trip to El Captain was a break of his rigorous scaling schedule. He had arrived at Yosemite two weeks ago to camp in the park, and planned to meet his family there to spend a vacation.
Balin Miller on the «Croc’s Nose» route of Crocodile Rock in the Hyalite Canyon. (Photo: Dylan Miller Via Ap)He showed in several Instagram posts the days of camping that passed with several friends and colleagues through fun postcards, where his followers nicknamed him «The boy from the orange store», for the bright tent he used.
Then the Captain, one of the most prominent reference points of Yosemite Park, of more than 1,600 square kilometers, departed to the famous cliff.
Despite the testimonies, it is not clear what went wrong during Miller’s escalation. His older brother, Dylan Miller, confirmed that he used to wear a rope to protect himself from any fall when he climbed alone.
«The climbing probably ended and was carrying the rest of his team when he descended in Rápel until the end of his rope and fell; he inspired so many people to do things perhaps unthinkable, including me, that I cannot imagine climbing again without him,» Dylan said.
Balin’s last post was at the beginning of September, next to a compilation of postcards climbing, and his words now charge a cryptic sense. «A slow final for summer, wanting to disappear on the rocks,» the boy had said as he prepared for his next challenge, without knowing that he would be the last.
