Arne Randers Heen

Arne Randers Heen was a Norwegian mountain climber and member of the Norwegian resistance during the Second World War, born in Hen Municipality on 4 April 1905 and working as a tailor in Åndalsnes. He was Norway's leading mountaineer from the 1920s to the 1950s, largely self-taught and an outsider to a sport then defined by the Norsk Tindeklub in Oslo. He made several first ascents, climbed Romsdalshorn many times including its first winter ascent, and in 1926 soloed its south wall. In 1958 he and Ralph Høibakk finally climbed Trollryggen, and in the war he helped an XU agent and escaped Russian prisoners cross the mountains and passed German military intelligence to the allies.