Zoomer falls to his death while livestreaming his climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park

As terrifying as this week’s Amazing Race challenge atop the Prague TV Tower.

Don't try this at home, kids.

R1 I watched that last night - ridiculous. However they had dozens of safety measures in place to make sure nothing tragic happened to the contestants.

It’s important to tie a stopper knot in your climbing rope when you rappel. Too many accidents happen being more focused on where the next anchor is then how much rope is left. Tying a stopper knot at the end of a rappel rope prevents the rope from slipping through your rappel device, stopping you from falling off the end of the rope, especially when the rappel is longer than anticipated. This was his fatal flaw…RIP

Video or it didn't happen

R5 He has the video on him - if you can find him.

The camera man never dies so there must have been some weird fuck secretly videotaping him from afar. Or maybe the live aspect negates the stealth as being the cameraman. It’s true. The cameraman NEVER dies.

Sad...unless he was MAGA.

How did he die?

Good riddance

For those of you wondering about the cameraperson, the answer's in a comment someone submitted in response to the article:

[quote]He didn't livestream anything. An unrelated man in the valley was livestreaming the progress of several groups on the wall. Regurgitating misinformation published by other rags that didn't bother to spend the time to get the facts right isn't journalism.

Is this a new curse? There was this S.F. Brazilian CEO who also fell off a mountain last week.

This thread is useless without that video.

He died doing what he loved. Which he apparently loved more than continuing to be alive.

Good thing he didn't reproduce.

“Balin Miller is offfline”

The Under-45s mostly have no children, so they have too much free time to climb Mt. Everest or hang over the Grand Canyon for a selfie.

Poor dumb kid. Young men do so many stupid, reckless things.

Was he yodeling on the way down?

Hey, at least he was doing something adventurous and completely unrelated to cell phones and TikTok. Far more intrepid than 95% of his peers.

R20 Except that he was live-streaming on TikTok when he plunged to his death. So, not really unrelated to TikTok after all.

“Tragedy”

Earlier this year he was the first person in 37 years to complete one of the most treacherous ice climbs in the Rockies. RIP

R21 - No, that's incorrect. See R11.

Where will his tomb be?

[quote] Hey, at least he was doing something adventurous and completely unrelated to cell phones and TikTok. Far more intrepid than 95% of his peers.

...but tragically 100% less alive.

R24 I stand corrected, on a technicality. [italic]He[/italic] wasn't live-streaming his climb to TikTok...but he [italic]was[/italic]being live-streamed to TikTok by a bystander.

A tragedy, regardless. But thank you for the correction.

r27 That was embarrassing for you

R28 Hardly. But, whatever gets you through the night, darlin'.

He sounds like a remarkable young man. RIP Balin Miller.

I’d like to know more about his childhood and family. Alaska and Montana. He loved the cold.

What was on his iPod?

R31:

[quote] What was on his iPod?

Climb Every Mountain

Heartbreaking

[quote] What was on his iPod?

"Don't Bring Me Down"

Reminds me of this song.

Here's the video of him descending to his climbing mate and then falling. It's not graphic. It happened so fast that he just fell down and went out of view from the camera position and then you see the empty rope snap back up into view.

R4 - I read that he basically flew off the end of his rope because of ONE oversight. I can't imagine what the thought for that split second when he realized it was the end. And he had plenty of time to contemplate his demise at 9.8 M/second ².

[QUOTE]10 seconds to fall the first 1,000 feet and about 5-6 seconds for each subsequent 1,000 feet of freefall

Are there rock climber safety groups or something similar that encourage safety protocols like memorizing a reminder checklist, identifying danger points during ascents and decents etc? Who knows, not that it could dampen thrill and sensation seekers...

I read this interview with his mother. My opinion turned on a dime to totally unsympathetic immediately.

[QUOTE]He taught himself by reading books on climbing and by climbing with friends, Ms. Moorman said. “How can you not admire him for what he did?” she said.“

As opposed to hanging out with veteran climbers/old timers and following their wisdom? It sounds like he beat his own path with equally green and arrogant companions.

[QUOTE]Everyone should experience real fear and danger at some point, which is easily done in the mountains,” Mr. Miller once wrote. “I think it would help a lot of people become less stressed over more frivolous problems.”

Arrogant condescension beyond belief to make himself feel special and better over the masses who slog to eat and survive and live in fear daily for their families while he traipsed off to exotic locations to pursue his own passion (on whose dime, BTW?)

R39, that just reads to me as a typical arrogant 23-year-old male.

He didn't deserve to die for his stupidity.

R40 - I'm not sure what I said that led you to conclude that I believe he deserves death. Could you clarify so I'm not so insensitive in the future?

R41, sorry, I may have misread your previous posy.

All I'm saying is that it is sad that this dumb kid died.

El Capitan in Yosemite National Park is where "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989) was filmed.

This incident made me think of the scene at the beginning of the film where Captain Kirk falls off the mountain and has to be rescued by Mr. Spock and his rocket boots:

[QUOTE]sorry, I may have misread your previous posy.

May have, like fucking cunt? You sound like a Trump Administration twat.

From what I understand from reading the words of climbing experts, this was sadly a preventable death. He didn't take the proper precautions and died because of it. He didn't deserve to die, no question, but if you're going to do stuff that is so dangerous, you can't afford to not do all the proper safety things. The wise old climbers are there to talk about t cause they were the cautious and smart ones in their youth. The cocky ones don't live to old age.

I'd like to see mountain climbing outlawed, and I have felt that for a long time.

Would you also like to see freeways and passenger planes outlawed R46?

R41 Calm your tits

He was doing something he loved and that he knew - or should have known - was very, very, very, dangerous.

It's not a tragedy.

He accepted the risk of this happening. He wasn't fighting for his life in a cancer ward.

r49 Agreed, but technically it's still a tragedy.

R49 How do you define tragedy ?

Did anyone watch the video of Miller's at R37?

Maybe the fall killed him.

Yes, why, r52? Is it not working for you?

[quote]RIP Balin Miller

Wojo was cuter and funnier.

r41/r44, you need to go back on your meds.

I agree with r39. He sounds like an influencer parroting some corny motivational speaker, not like someone with a realistic understanding of what he's actually involved in.

Okay, so it meets one of the dictionary's definition of a tragedy.

And I'm guessing you all understand that there's a difference between a classroom full of children being shot up and. children dying as a result, and a mountain climber that VOLUNTARILY put his life at great risk because he was doing something he thought was fun.

THAT'S the difference in what I would call a tragedy. The word almost loses its meaning when applied to something that really isn't quite a tragic event. His was an accident. A risk he assumed. He had a choice. The children did not.

Doesn't make it tragic or make him a tragic figure. Just isn't the same.

YMMV

POST, not posy. And maybe you should've fallen off El Capitan instead, you stupid twat, R44. I am sure nobody would miss your ass.

[quote] I can't imagine what the thought for that split second when he realized it was the end.

"I wonder which was the greatest Momma Rose: Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, or Patti LuPone?"

[quote]I can't imagine what the thought for that split second when he realized it was the end.

Oh, Fuck!

[quote] Would you also like to see freeways and passenger planes outlawed [R46]?

Yes, they are unnatural. Humans were never meant to be doing those things.

r58 Sweetheart, go outside today.

“Free Falling” by Tom Petty was on his iPod.

Living for the day pussycat…:GERONIMO!!!