Wisconsin man falls to his death while climbing in Wyoming

A man from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who died while climbing at a national monument in Wyoming over the weekend.

Stewart Porter, 21, was rappelling down the second pitch of El Cracko Diablo in Devils Tower National Monument when he fell and sustained serious injuries. Paramedics who arrived at the scene around 8:40 p.m. Saturday pronounced Porter dead, the National Park Service said in a statement.

Porter was with another man at the time. His partner was stranded but was rescued by climbing guides, the Park Service said.

“Although fatalities occur rarely while climbing Devils Tower, climbing is still dangerous,” the Park Service said.

Porter's death was the seventh fatality of a climber in more than a century of climbing the igneous rock formation that rises from the prairie surrounding the Black Hills, the Park Service said.