An Indian couple, who fell to deaths in October reportedly while taking a selfie at a steep cliff in Yosemite National Park in California, were intoxicated during the tragic fall, according to an autopsy report.

The 29-year old Vishnu Viswanath, and his wife, 30-year-old Meenakshi Moorthy, was “intoxicated with ethyl alcohol” prior to falling 800 feet from Taft Point on October 25, but no drugs were present in their bodies, according to the autopsy report. 

Ethyl alcohol is the intoxicating ingredient of many alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, and hard liquor.

Due to the condition of the bodies after the utmost fall, investigators were unable to accurately recognize a specific level of intoxication, Andrea Stewart, assistant Mariposa County coroner said.

“All we can conclude is that they had been drinking and that they had alcohol in their systems. We don’t know how much,” Stewart was quoted as saying by Mercury News.

The couple from Kerala died “of multiple injuries to the head, neck, chest, and abdomen, sustained by a fall from a mountain,” the report said.

Both graduated in 2010 from the College of Engineering, Chengannur, in Kerala, and had been married since 2014. Vishwanath was a software engineer with Cisco India in Silicon Valley.

Moorthy and Viswanath, who often showcased their adventure-seeking travels on Instagram had set up a tripod at Taft Point before they fell 800 feet down the side of a steep cliff. The tripod was later discovered on the edge of the spot.

Viswanath's brother, Jishnu Viswanath said it seemed the couple died trying to take a photo.

Murthy once posted a picture of herself at the Grand Canyon, saying in the caption that “A lot of us including yours truly is a fan of daredevilry attempts of standing at the edge of cliffs. But did you know that wind gusts can be fatal? Is our life worth one photo?”

-Sowmya Sangam