Devils Tower is 1,267 feet tall and rises above the Belle Fourche River. It’s the world’s largest example of columnar jointing, which is a type of rock formation that occurs when lava cools ...

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A rock climber fell to his death Sunday at Devils Tower National Monument, the towering rock formation in Wyoming. Stewart Phillip Porter, a 21-year-old from Eau Claire, Wis., fell just before 8 p ...

HULETT, Wyo. — A climber fell to his death while rappelling down Devils Tower, leaving his partner stranded without a rope on the face of the Wyoming geological formation. The stuck climber was ...

Devils Tower Law Enforcement was informed of the fall at around 8 p.m. on Sunday and found Porter and his climbing partner around 40 minutes after initial reports.

Mr. Porter was the seventh recorded climbing death at Devils Tower, which has been a popular climbing destination for more than 100 years, park officials said.