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A couple plunged to their death from a popular proposal cliff at Yosemite National Park also captured last week in another pair’s viral engagement photo.
Park rangers said the victims died Thursday when they fell from Taft Point, a scenic destination in the California park, news station KPIX reported.
“A male and female visitor died in an apparent fall from Taft Point in Yosemite National Park. Yosemite National Park Rangers are recovering the bodies this morning,” officials said in a statement. “This incident is under investigation and no further details are available.”
The accident comes a week after another couple’s wedding proposal at the picturesque cliff became an online sensation.
Their romantic shot took off on social media as a freelance photographer, Matt Dippel, attempted to track down the couple, whose touching moment he inadvertently snapped.
Dippel said he was waiting to take a landscape photo of his friend when one couple’s engagement caught his eye.
“It’s a super-popular place in Yosemite. Really popular for engagements, proposals, weddings,” Dippel told CNN. “There were at least three or four different brides and grooms up there doing their post-wedding photos, so it’s definitely not an uncommon thing to see up there.”
The photographer said he then tried to find the lovebirds at Yosemite but to no avail.
“I ran over to that point after I took the photo to try to figure out who they were and I asked maybe 20 or 25 people and no one came forward,” Dippel said.
Dippel ultimately reached out to social media for help, sharing the engagement photo in a tweet, which has received more than 164,000 retweets since Oct. 17.
The newly-engaged couple, however, still have not been located more than a week after the viral photo.
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