Brook Cheuvront was reported missing on Saturday after a tracking app she was using stopped updating and friends could not reach her.
A University of North Carolina student who was in South Africa for an internship was found dead after she went missing while on a hike on Table Mountain in Cape Town , authorities said Monday.Brook Cheuvront, 20, of Newland, North Carolina, was reported missing on Saturday after a tracking app she was using stopped updating and friends could not reach her, said SANParks spokesman JP Louw.
An initial search was conducted by rangers, wilderness search and rescue members, and trail runners until late Saturday evening when it was no longer practical to continue, said Louw. An aircraft joined the search the next day and helped to locate the body.The 20-year-old was a sophomore at UNC and a Morehead-Cain Scholar who was in South Africa for an internship at the University of Cape Town, CBS affiliate WNCN reported.
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