Juliana Marins, 27, was hiking with five friends on Mount Rinjani on Saturday when she slipped and fell off a cliff on the side of the 3,726-metre (12,224 feet) mountain. 

She was found dead on Tuesday, rescuers said. Rescuers had been attempting to retrieve the body since but the effort was hampered by thick fog and the steep terrain. 

The body was recovered on Wednesday in a retrieval process that took six hours, Mohammad Syafii, the head of the National Search and Rescue Agency said late on Wednesday. After being lifted from the cliff, Marins' body was carried on a stretcher to the rescuers' nearest post where an ambulance took it to a hospital. 

"Initially we would like to use helicopter in the evacuation but it's not possible due to the weather condition," he said. 

"So, we had to evacuate the victim on stretchers which took quite a long time." 

Footage shared by the agency showed rescuers attempting to lift the body from the cliff using ropes, overshadowed by thick fog. 

The rescuers agency had met with the family of Marins to explain the evacuation process, Syafii said, adding the family "can accept the situation". 

"The Brazilian government informs, with deep sadness, the death of the Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins, who had fallen from a cliff surrounding the trail near the crater of Mount Rinjani," the Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement.

"At the end of four days of work, hindered by adverse weather, terrain, and visibility conditions in the region, teams from the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency found the body of the Brazilian tourist."

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he received the news of Marins' death "with great sadness."

"Our diplomatic and consular services in Indonesia will continue to provide full support to her family at this time of great pain," Lula said in a post on X.

Located in West Nusa Tenggara province, Mount Rinjani is an active volcano and popular tourist site in Indonesia. 

Several tourists, including foreigners, have died in accidents while hiking the volcano over the past few years, local media reported, including a Malaysian tourist who also fell off a cliff last month.