Travel enthusiasts Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and his wife Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, fell to their deaths last week during a visit to Taft Point, which sits inside California's Yosemite National Park.
The couple who lived in the US were travel enthusiasts who wrote a blog called Holidays and Happilyeverafters to chronicle their travels.
A family member has now said they were taking a selfie before falling from the granite ledge. 
They set up their tripod near a ledge at a scenic overlook in the California park, Viswanath’s brother Jishnu Viswanath told .
Taft Point, Yosemite National Park Source: Wikimedia Commons
Visitors spotted the camera the next morning and alerted park rangers, who used high-powered binoculars to find them and used helicopters to airlift the bodies.
The couple was identified on Monday and it was soon revealed they loved "living life on the edge".
The couple had over 21,000 followers on their Instagram page, which included ‘thrilling’ and ‘adventurous’ photos from their various trips.
In one photo, Moorthy poses at the edge of the Grand Canyon wearing a Wonder Woman costume, with the caption: “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 gust can be FATAL??? Is our life just worth one photo?”
Mr Viswanath’s Facebook cover photo showed them standing at a Grand Canyon precipice, which is captioned: “Living life on the edge.”
The couple hailed from Kerala, India.
Mr Viswanath worked as a software engineer with Cisco at the company’s San Jose headquarters.
India has the highest number of selfie-deaths in the world
A 2016 report titled “” by Carnegie Mellon University and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT Delhi) found that India had the highest number of selfie-deaths in the world.
According to the data, India accounted for a startling 76 out of 127 selfie deaths recorded since March 2014.
