Tourist Who Missed Norwegian Cruise Ship Discovered Dead On Mountain Trail In Alaska

A tourer who went missing aft she grounded to return to her cruise vessel past week has been recovered dead.

Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was visiting Alaska's superior metropolis erstwhile she did not return from a hike.

The Alaska Department of Public Safety said her assemblage was recovered by an Alaska Army National Guard chopper unit precocious Thursday beneath nan ridge statement of Gold Ridge.

Buenafe is listed arsenic a expert astatine UK HealthCare, a strategy of hospitals and clinics of nan University of Kentucky.  

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Marites Buenafe, 62, is listed arsenic a expert for UK HealthCare. Her assemblage was recovered July 3, 2025, successful Alaska.  (Alaska State Troopers)

State troopers and Juneau Mountain Rescue were capable to retrieve Buenafe's assemblage pinch thief from Temsco Helicopters and nan National Guard.

Her family has been notified of her decease and her assemblage will beryllium sent to nan state's aesculapian examiner's agency for an autopsy, nan Associated Press reported.

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The Norwegian Bliss cruise vessel passes done John Hopkins Inlet successful Glacier Bay, Alaska connected Thursday, July 11, 2019.  (Tim Rue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On July 1, nan Juneau Police Department heard from Buenafe's relatives that she had near for a hike that greeting and had plans to return a celebrated tourer tram partially up a upland overlooking downtown Juneau earlier stepping to Gastineau Peak and Gold Ridge, according to nan authorities Department of Public Safety. 

She had gotten disconnected nan Norwegian Bliss and did not return to nan alloy by its departure time.

The 62-year-old woman’s relatives called authorities aft she grounded to return to nan cruise vessel arsenic it was docked successful Juneau, Alaska.  (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Norwegian Cruise Line did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Julia Bonavita and nan Associated Press contributed to this report.