AS SEEN FROM ABOVE THE INCIDENT

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Rock climbing guide Dave Miller jumped out of his car and took a picture as the rocks came crashing down.

The National Park Service said on Wednesday, one person has died and another has been injured after a rockfall on a popular climbing route in Yosemite National Park. The incident was reported on El Capitan. The granite monolith rises straight up about 3,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of California. The NPS said a rockfall of “undetermined size” occurred about 1:55 p.m. local time. Park rangers and search and rescue personnel were at the scene. The park service said, “This is the climbing season in Yosemite National Park and there are many climbers on El Capitan and other climbing routes in the park.”

Rockfall On Yosemite’s El Capitan Leaves One Dead

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Climber Dies After Rockfall At Yosemite National Park

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El Capitan Rockfall Kills One and Injures Another in Yosemite

A chunk of rock broke off El Capitan, the towering granite wall in Yosemite National Park, on Wednesday afternoon, killing one person and injuring another, park officials said. The rockfall occurred shortly before 2 p.m. on the right side of the wall, along the Waterfall Route, a popular ascent for rock climbers on the 3,000-foot-tall monolith. Park rangers and search-and-rescue crews, who combed the area on foot and in a helicopter, found one person who had died and another who had been injured, Scott Gediman, a spokesman for Yosemite, said in a statement.

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One Dead After Rockfall On Yosemite’s Famed El Capitan

Another climber was injured on the near-vertical slope.

One person has died and another has been injured after a rockfall on a popular climbing route in Yosemite National Park, the National Park Service said Wednesday.

The incident was reported on El Capitan, a granite monolith that rises straight up about 3,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of California. The NPS said a rockfall of “undetermined size” occurred about 1:55 p.m. local time, and park rangers and search and rescue personnel were at the scene.

“The release point appears to be near the ‘Waterfall Route,’ a popular climbing route on the East Buttress of El Capitan,” the park service said. “This is the climbing season in Yosemite National Park and there are many climbers on El Capitan and other climbing routes in the park.”

Park rangers were working to get one injured person to medical care.

The NPS did not identify the victim or injured person and said it expected to release more information Thursday.

Ryan Sheridan, a climber, posted a photo to Facebook with a comment that said the fall “doesn’t look good” and that “one person walked out of the debris.”

Comments on a rock climbing forum said the fall “looked like a sheet of rock about 100 feet square.”

The NPS said Yosemite remains open.

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