A tourist who went missing after she failed to return to her cruise ship last week has been found dead. Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was visiting Alaska’s capital city when she did not return from a hike.

Image via Shutterstock Authorities have sadly found the body of a missing woman after she failed to return to a cruise ship docked in Alaska. The woman died while venturing away from her cruise for a hike near Juneau.

Marites Buenafe, originally from Kentucky, told her family she'd disembarked from the Norwegian Bliss for a hike. She never came back to the ship.