The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, fell to their deaths from Taft Point in Yosemite National Park on the 25th of October. They were identified on Monday as a married couple from India living in the United States.
The report said that the husband and wife had recently moved from New York after Vishnu Viswanath took a job as a systems engineer at Cisco, based in San Jose. Together, they chronicled their adventures of travelling around the world in a blog called ‘Holidays and HappilyEverAfters’.
Falling from Taft Point, where visitors take selfies and record the breathtaking view, the couple experienced an 800 feet fall.
The couple’s last picture was captured by another couple who was visiting the National Park and Meenakshi happened to photobomb their selfie.
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Vishnu and Meenakshi’s painful death comes after they wrote on Instagram about the DOs and DONTs of clicking selfies for Instagram likes.
“Sooo today on #socialmediabadasstribe we are talking about limits of #doitforthegram. Yeah sure it can be limitless but guys, we reaaaallly need to have boundaries(this is handy as life lessons too but we will revisit that later).”
“But did you know that wind gusts can be FATAL??? Is our life just worth one photo?” they wrote.
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