Kurnell selfie cliff fall victim identified as US Mormon missionary Gavin Paul Zimmerman 
 
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 A Mormon missionary who died at a popular whale-watching site in Sydney's south has been described as a "bright light" who loved spending time in Australia. Gavin Paul Zimmerman, 19, from the US state of Utah, slipped while taking photos at Cape Solander in Kurnell yesterday afternoon. “Gavin was a bright light in our lives!” his parents’ statement read. The grieving parents said their son was a high school track and football athlete who came to Sydney last August for a proselyting mission. “He was a great example to us all, and he loved his mission very much. A young lifeguard dived about eight metres down to retrieve the unconscious man, before pulling him onto the jetski where he performed CPR before paramedics arrived. Visitors warned to take care 
 
 This is the second fatal incident at Cape Solander in six weeks, after a man aged in his 30s died in similar circumstances last month. Gavin Paul Zimmerman, 19, of West Haven, was serving in the Sydney Mission, according to a news release from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
– Gavin Zimmerman promised to take lots of photos from a whale-watching lookout in Australia so he could share them with friends back home in Utah. He won’t get the chance. Before finding a cellphone with photos of Zimmerman close to a cliff edge, authorities pulled the lifeless body of the 19-year-old Mormon missionary from the waves Monday. Halfway through a two-year mission in Sydney, per the Salt Lake Tribune, Zimmerman had been with friends at the popular sightseeing spot of Cape Solander in Kamay Botany Bay National Park when he slipped and fell 100 feet. A lifeguard eventually pulled Zimmerman’s body from 25 feet below the water’s surface, but he could not be revived, reports ABC Australia. Zimmerman's parents call their son a "bright light" who "enjoyed teaching people and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ." Meanwhile, a local mayor is warning people not to climb fences or get too close to slippery rock cliffs at Cape Solander, where a man in his 30s died in a fall six weeks ago, reports Yahoo. "You're putting your life at risk and why—for a photo? It's not that important," Carmelo Pesce tells ABC, noting cellphone images show Zimmerman "extremely close to the edge of the rock." Per ABC, an American friend says Zimmerman "would always write group emails to everyone back home" and had promised to "take lots of pictures [from the lookout] and email me next week to show me." (These tourists suffered a similar fate.)