https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balin_Miller
RIP 23 years old, he was just a kid.
A great climber lost
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Gandalf69
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A great climber lost
"There's always the possibility that some a**hole will be offended." -Clint Eastwood, Escape from Alcatraz
"Life is cruel, why should the afterlife be any different".-Davey Jones
"The decision to triage us to death...I understand. I don't know that I would agree with it. Certainly not in retrospect because obviously I made it."-Beck Weathers, Dark side of Everest
"Life is cruel, why should the afterlife be any different".-Davey Jones
"The decision to triage us to death...I understand. I don't know that I would agree with it. Certainly not in retrospect because obviously I made it."-Beck Weathers, Dark side of Everest
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seano
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Re: A great climber lost
I hadn't heard of him, but it sounds like he climbed a lot of bold stuff. Aid soloed a 5.9 A4, then rapped off the end of his rope. Was he tired? Rushed? Distracted? We'll never know. Sometimes it's the smallest things that get you.
RIP.
RIP.
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montanahiker
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Re: A great climber lost
From one of the articles linked on his wikipedia page:
onlookers saw Miller fall while participating in a TikTok livestream
There's more to life than 14ers. There are 13ers.
Re: A great climber lost
Yikes! The fall was live streamed?? Jesus
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astranko
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Re: A great climber lost
To be clear about the livestream:
Balin was not the one streaming. Someone in the Valley with a telephoto lens was doing a multi-day livestream of the wall and it's climbers. There was no affiliation between Balin and the streamer.
It's not clear (to me, at least) if he either knew he was being streamed or if the streamer knew it was Balin. Based on what I can tell, neither of those were true. He was just... someone up there doing something cool.
Balin was not the one streaming. Someone in the Valley with a telephoto lens was doing a multi-day livestream of the wall and it's climbers. There was no affiliation between Balin and the streamer.
It's not clear (to me, at least) if he either knew he was being streamed or if the streamer knew it was Balin. Based on what I can tell, neither of those were true. He was just... someone up there doing something cool.
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ikwahr
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Re: A great climber lost
Clarification from the person who happened to be live streaming -
https://www.tiktok.com/@mountainscallin ... 1968175390
https://www.tiktok.com/@mountainscallin ... 1968175390