Kottayam: The parents of a young Malayali couple, who died in the US after falling from a cliff while attempting a joint selfie last week, are undecided over bringing the bodies to their native place. S R Murthy and Chitra are mourning the tragic death of their daughter Meenakshi and her husband Vishnu during a trek in California on October 23.

Vishnu, 29, hailed from Kathiroor in Kannur district, while Meenakshi, of the same age, was a native of Kottayam. They were classmates at an engineering college in Chengannur in Alappuzha district and were working in America, having married four years ago.

The techies were posing for a mobile picture at the Yosemite National Park in western Sierra Nevada, Central California, when they slipped and plunged 3,000 feet down. The bodies had shattered into smithereens, so the parents know they would not be able to take a last look at the deceased.

The young pair had for a while been enthusiastic about adventure trips, and would update their parents regularly about the latest trekking rounds by sending them photos over WhatsApp. The two families in Kerala, thus, were in kept in the loop about Vishnu’s and Meenakshi’s Yosemite trip.

Thus, when the couple went incommunicado last weekend, the kin sensed something amiss. Hours of prayers followed, only to be broken by the worst-feared news.

Vishnu and Meenakshi had married at the Sri Krishna temple in Guruvayur and had last visited Kerala in 2017.