Travel bloggers who plunged 800ft to their deaths while taking selfie at Yosemite were drunk, autopsy reveals
An Instagram travel blogger couple who fell 800 feet to their deaths after falling off Yosemite's scenic Taft Point in October 2018 was reportedly drunk at the time. A toxicology report from the Stanislaus County Coroner's Office stated that 30-year-old Meenakshi Moorthy and 29-year-old Vishnu Viswanath were "intoxicated with ethyl alcohol prior to death."
According to the Daily Mail, tests found their bodies had the same elements used in common alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, and hard liquor, and there were no other drugs in their systems. However, it is unclear how much alcohol they had consumed at the time, with an autopsy report stating the couple "died of multiple injuries to the head, neck, chest, and abdomen, sustained by a fall from a mountain."