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We were up on the Vernal trail after the 3 went over in 2011, makes you look, wondering if you might spot the bodies as you hiked up. They didn't find them for a year or so... That lip at Vernal is really smooth, water crystal clear, but there's a lot of water falling over that edge, nothing to grab... Nevada as I recall is a lot more wild, forced into a narrow slot where it's bridge is, but, the same game, big drops, hard, polished granite.. Last moments must be horrific...


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California man on church trip washes away over 600-foot Yosemite waterfall
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Mon, 03 Jun 13 6:41 PM
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California man on church trip washes away over 600-foot Yosemite waterfall

By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News

A 19-year-old California man was still missing late Sunday, a day after he was swept over a waterfall while swimming in Yosemite National Park.

Aleh Kalman of Sacramento was swimming in the Merced River during a church trip about 3 p.m. Saturday (6 p.m. ET) when he was washed away down the 600-foot Nevada Fall, park officials told NBC station KCRA of Sacramento.

Search teams and helicopters combed the area for Kalman until darkness fell and resumed their effort Sunday.

Kalman's family said it preferred not to comment to preserve its privacy.

Other members of the Second Slavic Baptist Church in North Highlands, which serves a congregation of immigrants from Russia and other former Soviet republics, cried during Sunday services at the presumed loss of the teen they called upbeat and "a good guy."

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