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Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan (www.bbc.com)

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An Alaskan climbing influencer has died after falling from El Capitan, a famous vertical rock formation in California's Yosemite National Park.

Balin Miller, 23, was live-streamed on TikTok ascending and subsequently falling from the monolith on Wednesday.

In an emotional social media post confirming her son's death, his mother Jeanine Girard-Moorman said: "My heart is shattered in a million pieces. I don't know how I will get through this. I love him so much. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare."

Details of what caused the incident are not clear, but Miller's brother Dylan told AFP he was lead rope soloing - a technique that enables climbing alone while still protected by a rope - on a 2,400ft (730m) route named Sea of Dreams.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'm just assuming, from what little I know of in the subject at least, that something involving adrenaline and dopamine must be involved.

Evolutionarily, that would have been useful to keep in as a feature I imagine. But in modern times, I guess it manifests as rock climbing or tight spelunking.