An unnamed British climber dies after 1,300 tonnes of rock from the nearby El Capitan formation fell on a popular hiking trail at the Yosemite National Park in California.
Parts of the El Capitan granite monolith collapsed while the man and his wife, who was badly injured in the accident, were hiking the trail on Wednesday afternoon, a spokesman for the Californian park said. The couple was found by a search and rescue team.
In a written statement released on Thursday, Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said: “The victims, a couple visiting from Great Britain, was in the park to rock climb but were not climbing at the time of the initial rockfall.
“The male was found deceased and the female was flown out of the park with serious injuries.”
Mr Gediman also added that two other people who were initially believed to be missing were later accounted for by search and rescue teams.
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