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, of Kentucky, was reported missing Tuesday afternoon when she did not return to the cruise ship Norwegian Bliss, according to the Alaska State Troopers.

Rescuers in Alaska recovered the body of a 62-year-old woman who went on a hike in the mountains near Juneau after leaving the Norwegian Bliss cruise ship.