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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The household of a climber who fell to his decease from Yosemite's El Capitan is asking for the public's assistance to bring his assemblage home, much than 2,000 miles away.
The household of 23-year-old Balin Miller described him arsenic an ambitious climber who brought joyousness and laughter with each encounter.
Commonly referred to arsenic the "Orange Tent Guy," the online fundraiser says Miller made a sanction for himself nationwide, surviving retired of his Prius, moving unusual jobs, equipped with a agleam orangish structure to travel him connected his adventures.
"Balin’s beingness was built astir exploration, simplicity, and connection. He was a person of animals, laughter, and people. He recovered joyousness successful the smallest things and escapade successful the everyday," the online fundraiser for Miller's read.
On Oct. 1, Miller was fulfilling a imagination of his: to implicit the legendary Sea of Dreams way successful Yosemite National Park. After accomplishing his goal, Miller made his descent down the upland erstwhile a container got stuck. In an effort to escaped it, Miller rappelled disconnected the extremity of the enactment and fell to the ground.
"He had precocious been successful Alaska, crystal and alpine climbing, and had conscionable travel location to sojourn america for a abbreviated while. In Yosemite, helium was chasing different imagination — to pb a way helium had agelong hoped to climb, preparing to conscionable household successful the fall," his mother, Jeanine Moorman, wrote.
The GoFundMe besides listed immoderate of Miller's top treks:
- Slovak Direct - Mt. McKinley, Denali
- Slipstream - Mt. Snowdome, Canadian Rockies
- Moonflower Buttress - Mt. Hunter, Alaska Range
- Come and Get It - Hyalite Canyon, Montana (free solo)
- Nemesis - Canadian Rockies (free solo)
- Whiteman Falls - Canadian Rockies (free solo)
- Unknown White Powder - Seward Highway, Alaska
- Sea of Dreams - El Capitan, Yosemite
Following his death, Miller's household and friends person been moving to stitchery funds to bring his assemblage location to Alaska. Anyone who would similar to assistance laic him to remainder tin donate to his GoFundMe.
