Family Speaks Out After Video Caught 23-Year-Old Falling to His Death (Exclusive)

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Promising rock climber Balin Miller, 23, died after falling from Yosemite’s El Capitan on Oct. 1

A video of his fall, which has since been deleted, showed him repelling down the rock wall when he suddenly ran out of rope

“I can’t talk about that part," mom Jeanine Girard-Moorman tearfully tells PEOPLE

“The mountain took my Balin today. I will never recover.”

Those words were posted by promising climber Balin Miller’s mom just hours after learning her son, 23, died after falling almost 3,000 ft. off Yosemite’s El Capitan on Wednesday, Oct. 1.

“As a nurse, we see people lose people. I lost my mom, my dad. But losing a child, a full grown child, your soul is shattered. It’s turned inside out and ripped into pieces,” Jeanine Girard-Moorman tells PEOPLE. “It’s drowning in s