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The bodies of two missing tourists - an Atlanta man and his Chinese mother - were found in the wreckage of their rental car in a steep ravine outside the park, authorities said Friday.

There was no suspicion of foul play in the deaths of Xiaodong Yuan, 34, and his mother, Zhaohui Wang, 60, of China, said Scott Gediman, a Yosemite National Park ranger. They were identified Friday by the Mono County coroner's office.

The bodies were found Thursday in Lee Vining Canyon, about 150 feet off the road that plunges from 9,945-foot Tioga Pass at the park's east entrance to the Owens Valley along a steep, winding canyon edge that lacks guardrails in many places.

The mother and son, who had been missing a week, appeared to have died from traumatic injuries when their car rolled down the embankment, but an investigation was underway, according to the Mono County Sheriff-Coroner's Department.

The pair had spent two nights in a cabin at Curry Village and checked out Sept. 23 with all their belongings. A search began after they failed to make a flight Sunday from Las Vegas to Atlanta.

The two had planned to drive the well-traveled Tioga Road, Highway 120, toward Nevada.

I knew him and his mother. He was the president of my mom's alumni association. It's so difficult to believe something this horrible could have happened.

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