A search is under way at Yosemite National Park for a 22-year-old man who disappeared Sunday after telling friends he wanted to be alone for half an hour to read his Bible.More than 100 rescuers from Tuolomne, Mono, Marin and Santa Clara counties resumed their search this morning for Esmyn Garmendia-Barrios, a native of Honduras who is believed to be living in Fresno.
"It is very difficult terrain," said Adrienne Freeman, a Yosemite spokeswoman.
Garmendia-Barrios drove to the park with friends Sunday afternoon to see the waterfalls, she said. They stopped at Washburn Point, a popular lookout on Glacier Point Road, and Garmendia-Barrios asked for a brief period of solitude, Freeman said. When his companions returned 30 minutes later, he was gone.
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