An American woman who disappeared while hiking at South Africa’s Table Mountain has been reported dead, as per officials, the BBC reported.
Brook Cheuvront, a 20-year-old student from North Carolina, also went to South Africa on an internship. She was performing an internship with an NGOs based in the area in Cape Town.
Ms. Cheuvront was then reported missing on Saturday as it emerged that the tracking device which she was using to follow her was no longer being updated and her pals’ attempts to reach her whit contact were also futile. Her remains would be found the next day lying ур on dеvіl’s peak, which іѕ a nutritional nеw thе gulch of tаblе mоuntain.
According to SANParks, Cheuvront had taken off from her lodging place at around 12pm on Saturday in order to go for the hike. But there was cause for alarm when the tracking app did not show any updates and that is when friends chose to go for the police.
All operations were quickly invoked and rangers and wilderness search-and-rescue teams began stopping into action but a mission to look for Ms. Cheuvront was abated towards the latter part of Saturday. However, it wasn’t until a helicopter arrived on Sunday and resumed the search that her body was found.
SANParks has agreeing the confirming that an investigation into the circumstances of Cheuvront’s death is under way with an outcome for the cause of death likely beginning with the results of an autopsy.
She was a teenager who had attended the then University of Carolina before she unfortunately passed away. In fact, she earned respect in her community due to her good knowledge but particularly while on the Morehead-Cain Scholarship programme. This programme helped her to travel abroad.
Speaking of the parents, Mrs. Matthews conveyed the family’s feelings of confusion and sadness through a message, ‘God help me and us’.
Some quarters may have expressed apprehensions but it was interesting how those in authority in south Africa declaims that there is no major problem of crime in South African Parks. They have asked that hikers should not go alone for safety reasons.
