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Balin Miller, 23, fell to his death from Yosemite’s El Capitan while trying to retrieve stuck gear.

The tragedy was inadvertently live-streamed on social media, highlighting the risks of this common but preventable climbing mistake.

A popular and promising young mountaineer fell to his death on Yosemite’s El Capitan on Wednesday, a tragedy that was reportedly live-streamed on social media.

Balin Miller, 23, from Anchorage Alaska, had already reached the top of the 3,000-foot granite wall — among the most famous and challenging rock climbs in the world — when a gear bag he was hauling behind him got stuck, according to a Facebook post by well-known Yosemite photographer Tom Eva

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