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American climber Balin Miller dies aged 23 while climbing El Capitan

California, Oct 3 (UNI) American climber Balin Miller has died at the age of 23 while climbing at Yosemite National Park, his mother confirmed on Thursday.
Miller was attempting to summit El Capitan, Yosemite’s iconic wall soaring 3,000 feet from the valley floor, via the “Sea of Dreams” route when the accident occurred, Jeanine Moorman – Miller’s mother – wrote in a blog post on the VIRR website, the family’s outdoor goods business, reports CNN.
“This is unthinkable,” Moorman wrote in tribute to her son. “At this time, we do not yet know all the details. What we do know is that the world has lost an extraordinary soul, and our hearts are shattered.”
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