Indian couple died in a fall from a popular overlook at Yosemite National Park in California

An Indian couple died in a fall from a popular overlook at Yosemite National Park in California.

Vishnu Viswanath, 29, a softaware engineer in Cisco in San Jose, CA and his wife Meenakshi Moorthi, also 29 died from an approximately 250 meter fall from an overlook, Taft Point, in Yosemite National Park, officials and family in Kerala confirmed.

It is believed that they were taking selfie at the cliff’s edge, where there is no railing.

Park rangers were trying to recover the bodies spotted by another tourist Wednesday, spokesman Scott Gediman said. Officials are still investigating when the pair fell and from what spot at Taft Point, which is 3,000 feet (900 meters) above the famed Yosemite Valley floor, he said. The fall was not witnessed by any one, and the circumstances leading to the fall are also unknown, according to officials.

The bodies were identified with IDs they were carrying. Visnu Viswanth’s parents are doctors in Kathirur, near Tellicherri in Kerala. Meenakshi hails from Kottayam. The funeral will be held here and the parents are expected to travel to the US.

They were living in Jersey City, New Jersey earlier.

Railings only exist at a small portion of the overlook, which is popular for its breathtaking views of the valley, Yosemite Falls and El Capitan and fissures on the granite rock that plunge to the valley floor.

More than 10 people have died at the park this year, some from natural causes and others from falls, Gediman said.

Taft Point is also where world-famous wingsuit flier Dean Potter and his partner, Graham Hunt, died after leaping from the cliff in 2015. The pair experienced at flying in wingsuits — the most extreme form of BASE jumping — crashed after trying to clear a V-shaped notch in a ridgeline.