The body of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student was found Sunday after she went missing the day before in South Africa.
Multiple news outlets in South Africa said Brook Cheuvront went missing around noon South African Standard Time on Saturday after she went for a hike to Devils Peak at Table Mountain National Park near Cape Town.
Around 2 p.m. SAST, local authorities said they found Cheuvront’s body.
A spokesperson for the South African Police Service said an inquest case has been opened into Chevurvront’s death.
Her father, Steve Cheuvront, asked all people to take down Facebook posts asking people for information on his daughter once authorities found her body.
“She was recovered, we are devastated. God help me and us,” Steve Cheuvront said on Facebook.
According to Brook Cheuvront’s Instagram page, she was in South Africa on a internship with Justice Desk Africa, an organization that work along side several groups, governments and businesses around the world to “challenge and eliminate the root causes of injustice.”
The group was founded in 2013 and operates out of several countries in Africa, including South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Liberia, Ghana and Kenya.
Cheuvront was a recipient of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship, a merit-based scholarship program that provides a full ride to UNC. The scholarship program also includes funding for internships, independent research, and international study.
Todd Boyette, Director of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, said he met Cheuvront when she was interviewing for the scholarship.
“A very good person, so it was easy for me to say, ‘If you come to Carolina, you can work at Morehead, no doubt,'” he said. “She worked at Morehead every week [and] almost every weekend during the school year, so I got to see her quite a bit.”
He said she told him how excited she was to travel to South Africa.
“She was excited about the opportunities and the possibilities, and we had no idea, well none of us did, that we wouldn’t see her again,” he said. “Just tragic. Tragic.”
Before attending UNC, Cheuvront was a student at Avery County High School, where she was the captain of the school’s cross country team and the valedictorian of her graduating class in 2022.
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