Alcohol found in the system of the couple, who died falling at Yosemite Park

The couple who died after falling from the Taft viewpoint at Yosemite National Park in California October had alcohol in their systems and were intoxicated at the time of the incident, Mercury News reported quoting autopsy report.
The autopsy investigations, completed Jan. 4 by the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department, concluded that 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 Dr. Sung-Ook Baik, a forensic pathologist at the Stanislaus County Coroner’s Office.
Both Moorthy and Viswanath were ‘intoxicated with ethyl alcohol prior to death,’ Baik stated in the documents, which contain toxicology reports. No drugs were present in their bodies, lab tests found.
Ethyl alcohol is found in beer, wine, hard liquor and other types of common alcoholic beverages. How intoxicated the couple were is unclear. Andrea Stewart, assistant Mariposa County coroner, emailed the Mercury News that, ‘we can only conclude that they had consumed alcohol but it is unknown to what level of intoxication.’
Moorthy and Viswanath’s death drew international attention. Viswanath had recently taken a job at Cisco Systems in San Jose.
The couple, who married in 2014 in Guruvayoor, Kerala, graduated with degrees in computer science and engineering from Engineering, Chengannur, where they met.
After moving to the United States, she worked as a media blogger, with more than 25,000 Instagram followers. She wrote about the couple’s adventures in national parks across the West and in scenic destinations all over the world.
The pair fell on Oct. 25 from Taft Point, a scenic overlook 3,500 feet above Yosemite Valley.
The bodies of the couple were found about 800 feet down the side of a steep cliff from Taft Point, which is located near the end of Glacier Point Road and has sweeping views of Yosemite Valley, El Capitan and Yosemite Falls. Park officials said a photo tripod was set up near the edge of the cliff from where they are believed to have fallen.
Park visitors saw the camera the next morning and alerted rangers, who used high-powered binoculars to find them and used helicopters to airlift the bodies.
In March, Meenakshi posted a photo of herself on Instagram, sitting on a cliff at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in a shirt that said “Sunset Chaser.” In the caption, she wrote about the dangers of taking dramatic, high-risk photos for likes on social media.
“A lot of us including yours truly is a fan of daredevilry attempts of standing at the edge of cliffs and skyscrapers, but did you know that wind gusts can be FATAL???” she wrote. “Is our life just worth one photo?”