2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
An Indian couple fell to their deaths from a stone peak in California's Yosemite National Park, apparently taking a selfie, reports NBC News.
Park guards recovered the bodies of Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, who were travel bloggers, on Thursday from about 800 feet below the popular Taft Point, according to park officials.
The park said they were both citizens of India living in the United States.
At Taft Point, which is 3,500 feet above the Yosemite Valley, visitors can hike to the edge of a stone that induces no railing and induces vertigo.
Viswanath's brother Jishnu Viswanath told reporters that the couple had set up their tripod near the ledge, the next day park visitors saw the camera and alerted rangers, he said.
A Yosemite spokesman said a California Highway Patrol helicopter helped sheriffs remove the bodies from the mountain.
The two victims were found about 800 feet up the side of a steep cliff from Taft Point, which is located near the end of Glacier Point Road and has panoramic views of the Yosemite Valley, El Capitan and Yosemite Falls.
"This death incident is still under investigation," a park spokeswoman said. "No determination has yet been made as to what caused this couple to fall to their deaths."
Moorthy wrote a blog titled Holidays and Happily Ever Afters and documented the couple's travels on an Instagram account of the same name. I wanted to work full time as a travel blogger, said Jishnu Viswanath.
"Many of us, including yours, are truly fans of daring attempts to stand on the edge of cliffs and skyscrapers, but did you know that gusts of wind can be FATAL?" Moorthy wrote in an Instagram post in March with a photo of her sitting on the rim of the Grand Canyon. "Is our life worth just one photo?"
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