Two climbers died Saturday in a fall from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, officials said. The two people, whose identities have not been released, fell…
Two climbers died Saturday in a fall from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, officials said.
The two people, whose identities have not been released, fell around 8:15 a.m. while climbing the Freeblast route on the iconic granite formation, park rangers said.
Rangers and a search and rescue team responded after getting 911 calls about the fall. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
On Wednesday, two men Wednesday broke the speed-climbing record at El Capitan, using the Nose route to scale the vertical 3,000-foot monolith in Yosemite Valley in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 15 seconds.
The deaths Saturday were the second and third at the park in two weeks.
A hiker who was using cables fell from Half Dome during a thunderstorm on May 21 — the first death there since 2011.
Kimberly Veklerov is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kveklerov@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kveklerov
