Jake Whisenant dies at 30: Yosemite speed climbing star killed in accident

Jake Whisenant, the Yosemite speed climber who holds the record time up El Capitan's Lurking Fear route, has died in an accident in the Sierra Nevada. He was 30.The Tulare County Sheriff's Office Coroner recorded his date of death as August 3, according to multiple reports. Officials have not released details about the circumstances of the accident, and his death has drawn tributes from across the climbing community he helped define.Yosemite's El Capitan climber Jake Whisenant dies at 30 in a Sierra Nevada accidentWhisenant, a Mammoth Lakes climber, built his reputation on some of the most demanding routes in American climbing. Yosemite's El Capitan, a granite wall rising thousands of feet above the valley floor, has long served as the sport's proving ground for big-wall specialists, and Whisenant became one of its most recognizable names.No cause of death has been confirmed.