An American lady who disappeared whereas mountaineering on South Africa’s Desk Mountain has been discovered useless, officers mentioned.
Brook Cheuvront, a pupil from North Carolina, was in Cape City doing an internship at an NGO.
The 20-year-old pupil was reported lacking on Saturday after a monitoring app she was utilizing whereas on a solo hike stopped updating and he or she couldn’t be reached.
Her physique was found on Sunday in a mountainous backdrop space, referred to as Satan’s Peak, police informed native media.
South African Nationwide Parks (SANParks), which manages Desk Mountain and different nationwide parks, mentioned the hiker left her room at midday to hike up the mountain.
Her mates known as the police when there have been no updates on her monitoring app, and so they couldn’t contact her by cellphone.
A swift search by rangers, and wilderness search-and-rescue crews was carried out till it was known as off late on Saturday.
A helicopter joined the search the next day and helped find her physique on the slopes of the mountain.
“The circumstances across the hiker’s demise are nonetheless being investigated,” SANParks mentioned in an announcement.
Police mentioned an post-mortem could be carried out to find out the potential explanation for demise.
SANParks mentioned an investigation into Cheuvront’s demise was ongoing.
In a Fb put up, Cheuvront’s father mentioned the household was “devastated.”
“God assist me and us,” Steve Cheuvront wrote.
She had been a pupil on the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was doing an internship at a non-governmental organisation (NG0).
South African authorities have denied there’s a downside with crime in Desk Mountain Nationwide Park, however urged guests to keep away from mountaineering on their very own in a separate put up.