In a release, the NPS said the 56-year-old fell from the summit ridge of Mount Russell and plummeted around 500 feet to his death on Monday while hiking with two others.
The man, whose name was not immediately available, was with two other people when the fall occurred Monday at the summit ridge of Mount Russell on the eastern edge of the national park.
The report by scientists with the National Park Service detailed widespread destruction from the Castle Fire that burned more than 270 square miles of timber in Sequoia National Park.
At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year,.