"Too early to speculate" on reason for Indian couple's tragic death: park official

How a young Indian techie couple, who regularly shared their travel adventures with thousands of social media followers, plunged to their deaths from a cliff in California's Yosemite National Park may take several weeks and it was "too early to speculate," a park official said.

Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and his wife, Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, were the two who died last week in a fall from Taft Point, a scenic overlook located 3,500 feet above the Yosemite Valley.

Some US media reports said the couple, both IT professionals, from Kerala may have plunged to their deaths while taking selfies at the dangerous spot.

But Jamie Richards, a spokeswoman for Yosemite National Park, said investigators still do not know how they plunged to their deaths last Wednesday from the iconic overlook high above Yosemite Valley.

She said the investigation is expected to take several weeks, The Mercury News reported.

"We still don't have any clear idea exactly what happened," Richards said. "We are still trying to piece it together."
"We do not know any of the circumstances of what may have happened up there."
"We are continuing to investigate what happened in this tragic incident," she said. "When you come to a place like Yosemite National Park and you go to places with majestic, scenic views, there is an inherent level of personal risk."
The company issued a statement late Monday saying: "It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of a Cisco employee, Vishnu Viswanath."