Israeli teen who fell to death in Yosemite was taking photo
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An Israeli 十代の少年少女 who fell to his death last year at an iconic waterfall in California's Yosemite 国家の Park was trying to mimic a popular social マスコミ photograph when he fell, 当局 said.
Park 公式の／役人s said Tomer Frankfurter of Jerusalem, 18, was 近づく the 最高の，を越す of Nevada 落ちる when he fell nearly 600 feet (183 メーターs) on Sept. 4 but 申し込む／申し出d few other 詳細（に述べる）s.
文書s 供給するd Monday to The Associated 圧力（をかける） through a Freedom of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 行為／法令／行動する request show Frankfurter was with a group he had met at Yosemite and they were about to 引き上げ（る） 負かす／撃墜する when he 手渡すd his phone to a woman and asked her to take his photo while hanging over the 辛勝する／優位.
証言，証人／目撃するs told 当局 Frankfurter said he was visiting the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs before beginning his compulsory Israeli Army service and that he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to reenact a photo often taken by tourists at Telegraph 激しく揺する in Rio de Janeiro. They said they told Frankfurter that in that photo people dangle from the 辛勝する／優位 of a 激しく揺する that is not far from the ground but he didn't listen.
In accounts from the 証言，証人／目撃するs, whose 指名するs are redacted, they told 捜査官／調査官s the woman first snapped the photos but Frankfurter soon asked for help because he couldn't climb 支援する up.
"I thought he was joking," one 証言，証人／目撃する told 捜査官／調査官s. "I turned around because I couldn't watch, but he was hanging off the 激しく揺する. Then he started to struggle."
Three people 急ぐd to help and held him by his 武器 and 手渡すs but he started sweating and slipped from their 支配する, 落ちるing to his death.
"Myself and the other two people just stood there shocked as he rolled 負かす／撃墜する the cliff," one 証言，証人／目撃する who tried to pull Frankfurter up told 捜査官／調査官s. "We tried as hard as we could but we had to let go."
The month after Frankfurter's death, a young couple from India died in a 落ちる from a scenic overlook in Yosemite. Their tripod was later discovered on the 辛勝する／優位 of the overlook and a 親族 s 援助（する） it appeared the couple died trying to take a photo.
