A climbing influencer has tragically died while live-streaming as he scaled an iconic rock face, with his devastated mother opening up on the "horrible nightmare".

Balin Miller, 23, fell to his death on Wednesday as he was scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. El Capitan is one of the most striking features of Yosemite National Park, an enormous sheer granite rock face of approximately 3,000 feet (915 metres) that entices big-wall rock climbers from all over the world .

The climber's mother Jeanine Girard-Moorman said: “He’s been climbing since he was a young boy. His heart and soul was truly to just climb. He loved to climb and it was never about money and fame.”

On Facebook she added: 'It is with a heavy heart I have to tell you my incredible son Balin Miller died duri

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