Search and rescue volunteers in Japan have found the body of an Auburn University student who went missing during a family vacation, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested mountains,.

James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, was last seen getting off a train at the Yamashina station in Kyoto Prefecture, according to his mother.

James “Weston” Higginbotham is a junior studying biosystems engineering at the Alabama college and was last seen in Kyoto.