By Janelle Griffith
A married couple who fell to their deaths
from an outlook at Yosemite National Park in California in October were
“intoxicated with ethyl alcohol prior to death,” according to autopsy
reports.
Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, and her husband, Vishnu
Viswanath, 29, died “of multiple injuries to the head, neck, chest and
abdomen, sustained by a fall from a mountain,” wrote a forensic
pathologist at the Stanislaus County Coroner’s Office, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Ethyl alcohol is found in common alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine and hard liquor.
How
intoxicated the couple was is unclear. “We can only conclude that they
had consumed alcohol but it is unknown to what level of intoxication,”
an assistant Mariposa County coroner told the San Jose Mercury News.
The autopsy investigations were completed Jan. 4. No drugs were present in their bodies, lab tests found.
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Moorthy and Viswanath were born in India but living in California. Park
rangers recovered their odies about 800 feet below the popular outlook
Taft Point, where visitors can walk to the edge of a vertigo-inducing
granite ledge that does not have a railing. Taft Point is located near
the end of Glacier Point Road and has sweeping views of Yosemite Valley,
El Capitan and Yosemite Falls.
What a rush!
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