Authorities believe that Aleh Kalman, a 19-year-old swimmer, did not survive after he was swept over a waterfall at Yosemite National Park in California on Saturday, USA Today reported on June 3, 2013.
“We believe it’s impossible to survive a fall like that,” a Park spokesman told CNN.
Although the teen remains missing from Yosemite National Park, rangers are still searching for the 19-year-old young man who was swept over a waterfall while swimming in the Merced River.
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According to park spokeswoman Kari Cobb, Kalman has been missing since officials received reports that several witnesses saw him get pulled to the edge of 594-foot Nevada Fall on Saturday.
Based on a statement from witnesses, Park rangers announced that Kalman was returning after swimming from a rock in the middle of the Merced River about 150 feet upstream of the waterfall when the current proved to be too much for him.
Park officials said Kalman was at the park with a church group and had been hiking the Mist Trail before the tragic accident occurred.
Efforts to find the Yosemite missing man on Saturday and Sunday yielded nothing.
The Yosemite National Park is located approximately 320 km east of San Francisco, Calif. The park covers an area of 761,268 acres and extends through the western slopes of the mountain range of Sierra Nevada, Wikipedia says. It is visited by over 3 million people every year, and most only go to Yosemite Valley.
It was named a World Heritage Site in 1984 and is recognized internationally for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear rivers, giant redwood forests and biological diversity (about 95% of the park area is wilderness ). It was the first park established by the federal government of the United States and through the work of people like John Muir was an important point in the development of the idea of national parks.
