Brook Cheuvron, an American lady who went missing while trekking on South Africa’s Table Mountain, has been found dead, officials said.
Cheuvront, a student from North Carolina, was in Cape Town for an internship with an NGO.
The 20-year-old student was reported missing on Saturday after tracking software she was using while hiking alone stopped updating and she was unable to be reached.
Police said her body was located on Sunday in a mountainous background region known as Devil’s Peak.
South African National Parks (SANParks), which maintains Table Mountain and other national parks, stated that the hiker left her hotel at lunchtime to ascend the mountain.
Her pals called the police since there were no updates on her monitoring app and they couldn’t reach her via phone.
Rangers and wilderness search-and-rescue workers performed a quick search before calling it off late Saturday.
The next day, a helicopter joined the search and helped locate her body on the mountain’s slopes.
“The circumstances around the hiker’s death are still being investigated,” SANParks said in a statement.
Police stated that an autopsy would be performed to identify the likely cause of death.
SANParks stated that an investigation into Cheuvront’s death was continuing.
Cheuvront’s father wrote on Facebook that the family was “devastated.”
“God help me and us,” Steve Cheuvront wrote.
She was a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student who was interning at a non-governmental organisation (NG0).
South African authorities disputed that there is a crime problem at Table Mountain National Park, but in a separate post, they encouraged visitors to avoid climbing alone.
