Of several nearby onlookers, Michael A. Fernandez yelled from shore, “Do you know what the railing is for?\u00a0 It’s so kids don’t go over the falls!”<\/p>\n
A woman in the wading party stared at Fernandez, but she did not otherwise respond to him.\u00a0 A moment later another of the women who had been standing in midriver tried to shoot a photo.\u00a0 Her hat fell off.\u00a0 The current instantly propelled it downstream.\u00a0 Little Christine scrambled across the flow to retrieve the dropped hat.\u00a0 Instantly, the river gripped her and carried her toward the waterfall.\u00a0 Within seconds, Yolanda, Christine’s mother, began stumbling down the river to chase down Christine.\u00a0 She too lost her footing and was swept helplessly toward the brink.<\/p>\n As witnesses behind the guardrail and others safely dotting the shoreline watched in horror, the Merced swept the lost hat over Vernal Fall.\u00a0 Next it carried Christine – as she frantically tried to clamber back toward shore – into a death plunge.\u00a0 A mere second or two later Yolanda too vanished over the edge.\u00a0 Her decomposed body was discovered sixty-two days later, on August 19.\u00a0 Young Christine Fuentes’ body was never found.<\/p>\n Culled from:\u00a0\u00a0Off the Wall:\u00a0 Death in Yosemite\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7791659c-4ff1-5c5e-135d-8a836e6b3a7c.jpg\")
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\nWhere the voice of reason comes from…\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nCivil War Injury Du Jour!<\/h3>\n