LOS ANGELES: A 28-year-old British man died in a rock climbing accident in California's Yosemite National Park, officials said Monday, the second fatality in two days in the world-famous natural wonder.

Londoner Felix Joseph Kiernan and a climbing partner were scaling El Capitan, a huge granite monolith which dominates Yosemite Valley in the heart of the spectacular park, when he was struck by falling rock on Sunday.

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