{"id":112034,"date":"2015-06-02T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-climber-dies-in-yosemite-2\/"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:36:08","slug":"durango-climber-dies-in-yosemite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-climber-dies-in-yosemite-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango climber dies in Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Media members watch as two climbers vie to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer slab of granite earlier this year up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. A former Durango man fell about 200 feet to his death Wednesday while climbing the iconic rockface.<\/span>Ben Margot\/Associated Press file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

A former Durango resident was killed Wednesday while climbing Yosemite National Park\u2019s iconic El Capitan.<\/p>\n

Tyler Gordon, age 21, grew up mostly in Durango and graduated from Durango High School in 2011.<\/p>\n

An account on the local blog El Capitan Reports said Gordon fell about 200 feet from Camp 6 on El Capitan\u2019s Nose formation when he went to retrieve items that were dropped on Camp 5 below. Gordon was not connected to his Grigri, a rope-braking device that assists in belays, causing him to free-fall the length of the rope.<\/p>\n

Yosemite Search and Rescue responded and was able to recover Gordon\u2019s body and lift his two climbing partners to safety, El Capitan Reports said.<\/p>\n

Gordon was planning to spend much of the summer climbing after returning recently from a trip to Europe, said his brother, Bryce.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was having a great time and trying to get in as much climbing as he could before he started grad school,\u201d Bryce Gordon said.<\/p>\n

Tyler Gordon earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in applied math from University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2014. He was planning to continue his studies at the University of British Columbia, Bryce Gordon said.<\/p>\n

Tyler Gordon was the son of Connie Gordon of Durango.<\/p>\n

Calls to Yosemite National Park and Yosemite Search and Rescue were referred to a park spokesman who was out of the office Friday.<\/p>\n

Yosemite was in the news recently when two BASE jumpers, Dean Potter and Graham Hunt, were killed May 16. The jumpers were wearing wingsuits when they reportedly struck a rock face after leaping off Taft Point in the park.<\/p>\n

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