JOHANNESBURG — A UNC Morehead-Cain scholar who went missing while on a hike in South Africa has been found dead.
“We are devastated. God help me and us,” her father said in a post on social media.
Brook Cheuvront, class of 2026, went missing while on a hike on Table Mountain in Cape Town. She was first reported missing Saturday after the tracking app she was using stopped updating and her friends could not reach her.
South African National Parks (SANParks) sent ground crews Saturday to search for Cheuvront, but they were unsuccessful. More ground crews tried and failed Sunday morning. A helicopter deployed to help in the search was finally able to find Cheuvrant’s body on the slopes of the mountain in an area known as Devil’s Peak.
According to our newsgathering partners at the News & Observer,that area can become treacherous during windy or rainy conditions. Saturday’s weather indicates potentially windy conditions during Cheuvront’s …