Thread 244018

A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, marking the third death in the park this summer.

Balin Miller, 23, died in a climbing accident Wednesday, his mother Jeanine Girard-Moorman confirmed.

“He’s been climbing since he was a young boy,” she said. “His heart and soul was truly to just climb. He loved to climb and it was never about money and fame.”

https://apnews.com/article/yosemite-climber-death-balin-miller-2b30976fd38680bcdbf7761ece3c0e5f?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

link to video of his plummet or gtfo

Apparently he was livestreaming it when he fell. No one has the video from his POV?

>>244037
lmao climbingfags and spelunkingfags get what they ask for

>>244037
he did the meme
lmao

>>244048
yeah I want to see that one with sound, want to hear the idiot screaming like a bitch while he falls to his death for 20 seconds

>>244076
That seems a little harsh

>>244086
>That seems a little harsh
4chan being 4chan, nothing new.

>>244048
>he was livestreaming it when he fell. No one has the video from his POV?
isn't that webm exactly the livestream? someone was streaming his ascent on tiktok, i don't think there was a 1st person POV streaming.

>>244088
I read that, apparently, he was livestreaming from his own perspective as he climbed to the peak.

I was watching the guy livestream his ascent as he fell, it was fucked up to watch it live, surreal. He'd been watching the guy climb for like three days, and right as soon as he made it to the top, not 10 or 15 minutes later, he was rappelling down the side to unsnag his bags from a ledge and he ran out of rope on the rappelling rope he had. He hadn't tied a safety knot.

But anyway, yeah, apparently Balin was streaming it himself, or so I've read. I was hoping someone could confirm/deny it. Usually climbers do that kinda shit. You'd think there would be more footage of them falling, climber deaths happen all the time.

>>244154
>He hadn't tied a safety knot.
Isn't that like a number one safety rule? Like this is climbing 101 right?

>>244018 (OP)

Being ex-military from a rather dangerous rate one thing I always notice about the cave divers and climbers that die is that they have habits of making exceptions a lot to save time. They aren't methodical enough. One thing taught and re-enforced better in the military is sticking to procedure and doing it exactly the same over and over then you don't have accidents like this one

>>244037
>>244082
while we wait, someone post more plummet webms they have to keep this bumped

>>244249
same with pilots/skydivers, im sure there are other examples
the autism checks are boring and take forever, but theyre there for a reason. because someone died before you for not doing something on the list. sure if you skip them 99.9 percent chance youll be fine but eventually youre gonna roll that 0.1

>>244262
People ask me as a climber what gets people killed, and I always tell them it's human error. Most climbing deaths that get into the news are 100% preventable. Better gear checks, climbing with partners, and actually using protection, that sort of thing can get ignored when you're an idiot hippy. You pretty much nailed it by saying "climbers take the risk of rolling that .1%" More likely than not, he got into this bad habit, this wasn't just a one time thing. Simply making sure that your rope was long enough for the rappel, or tying the damn safety knot which literally takes 5 seconds could have prevented this tragedy.

>>244268
Two climbers died from rockfall in 2023; both wearing helmets. Sometimes shit just happens.

>>244275
thats it no more cheap meme climbing helmets that dont work
im wearing an NFL helmet to climb

LOL the internet scrubbed something as small as this

>>244335
why does it not want people to see these mistakes so they dont learn from them? i bet theres a new parkour plummet every day somewhere around the world and it would potentially save other lives if people could see it

>>244226
>Isn't that like a number one safety rule? Like this is climbing 101 right?
yes but big wall climbing is complex and hard, and going fast is a priority. This means that making mistakes and/or skipping some precautions on purpose to be quicker, is common.

>>244249
true
literally no climber knows how to correctly belay and correctly use a GriGri, it's fucking ridiculous

>>244268
all true
but sometimes the rock where the belay anchor is set just explodes. and sometimes rocks just fall from above. and other times there is just no way to make a clean fall and you smash the rock. you can do everything right and still die or get severely injured.
the sport got popular thanks to climbing gyms, but the truth is that it's a dangerous sport.

>>244335
>LOL the internet scrubbed something as small as this
tons of clickbait youtube videos with no actual video
lol

and the legit video is just the dude falling, not e.g. smashing on the ground, so, yeah, quite ridiculous

>>244260
>while we wait
There's nothing to wait for, there's no POV.

>>244037
DESHI BA SA RA
DESHI BA SA RA