LOS ANGELES, California — A young climber from Alaska who was becoming a star among the climbing community died Wednesday when he fell from El Capitan at Yosemite National Park.

Balin Miller, 23, of Anchorage, Alaska, had reached the top and was trying to free a haul bag stuck below his anchor when he fell. Photographer Tom Evans, who witnessed the accident, writes on social media that Miller didn’t realize his rope wouldn’t reach the bag and rappelled off the end of the line.

“It is with a heavy heart I have to tell you my incredible son Balin Miller died during a climbing accident today,” Miller’s mother, Jeanine Girard-Moorman, writes in a post on social media. “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

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