In a news release Tuesday, Rangers at Yosemite National Park in California have said that a visitor of the state park fell over a cliff and to his death this past Sunday.

The man, Kenneth Stensby of Edina, Minnesota had left a note at the Ahwahnee Hotel's concierge service saying that he would be hiking to Vernal Fall along the Mist Trail and would be back around noon. He never returned.

The concierge noticed that he had still not returned at around 5 p.m., and quickly called in a search and rescue team to scour the area. They had no luck finding Stensby until the next day.

Stensby, 73, apparently fell from a cliff nearby the waterfall, and his body was located later on at around 6 p.m. Monday at the base of the falls.  The body was not recovered until the next day.

Spokeswoman Kari Cobb said that his death marked the first accidental fatality at the park this year. She did not speculate as to what Stensby might have been doing that caused his death, but did note that the cliffs can be extremely dangerous, especially so if one does not exercise caution.

"Yosemite by geography has a lot of cliffs, and it is a very rugged area," Cobb said. "We do urge visitors to be cautious no matter where they're hiking."

Stensby was a retired former CEO of the real estate company United Properties in Minneapolis, and had already been at the park for several days. He was not the first person to meet their death at Vernal Fall.

In 2011 three hikers crossed guardrails that were put in place to keep hikers out of the water above the waterfall. In that incident, one of the hikers had slipped on a rock, and when her other two friends tried to save her, all three of the tourists ended up going over Vernal Fall and to their death.