American Student Who Went Missing During Hike Found Dead on South Africa’s Table Mountain

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.

The management of SANParks, which manages Table Mountain and other national parks, said the cause of death was still unclear and an inquest into her death has been opened.

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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 {snip}

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