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SAN JOSE – A man from East Bay who recently visited Yosemite National Park was shocked to learn that he might have taken the last known photo of the woman who was seen. deceased with her husband after a terrible fall from the popular Taft Point park last week. The couple – Vishnu Viswanath and his wife Meenakshi Moorthy – were popular travel bloggers who recently moved to San Jose and enjoyed exploring the world.
CBS San Francisco has found a man who may have been one of the last people to have seen the couple alive.
When Sean Matteson, a resident of Oakland, took a selfie a stone's throw from Taft Point, he did not suspect that a few minutes would have passed before Moorthy and Viswanath died. Moorthy can be seen behind Matteson's shoulder, his distinctive dyed pink hair clearly visible in the photo.
A selfie taken at Taft Point in Yosemite National Park captures a dead woman.
Sean Matteson
"To be honest, I had goose bumps," Matteson said. "I had chills, it was very strange."
Rangers recovered the bodies of the couple last Thursday about 800 feet below Taft Point after the hikers spotted them the day before.
Matteson said his selfie was taken Sunday shortly after 5 pm
"It seemed like a lot of stories, speculation about the timing, the way, and all that stuff," explained Matteson. "And I guess we just felt it was incumbent upon us to share our impression of that day and the fact that we had seen it in person."
Matteson said Moorthy seemed to enjoy the landscape from a popular point of view. The 30-year-old woman was no stranger to the risk she was taking.
Moorthy and her husband had posted risky photos on their popular travel blog.
Last spring, she published a photo of herself at the Grand Canyon, recognizing the danger. The caption said: "Many of us, including yours, adore the daring attempts to stand on the edge of the cliffs, but did you know that gusts of wind can be fatal? ? "
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Matteson said he saw Moorthy standing on a lower ledge closer to the edge than he and his girlfriend were standing.
"Yes, no railings, I mean, it's very treacherous over there," Matteson said. "It could be very easy to make a mistake and get in trouble."
Moorthy's husband, Viswanath, worked for Cisco. They were new to California, having recently left New York.
On her travel blog, Moorthy wrote "live every moment" and called her husband "awesome guy."
"Nothing seemed to be something that was not right or something," Matteson remembered. "It seemed like they were there doing what they liked to do, it was my impression."
CBS San Francisco contacted Cisco, which issued the following statement: "It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Cisco employee Vishnu Viswanath and, as always, we are mobilizing to support the family of our colleagues during this difficult time. "
