Cedric Hählen

Cedric Hählen was a Swiss mountaineer, born on 19 September 1981, who went missing on 9 March 2012. He began climbing in the Alps as a child and took part in sixteen climbing competitions for the Swiss Alpine Club between 1995 and 2003. In 2004 he became the youngest European to climb K2, and the following year he was part of a Swiss-German team that made the first probable ascent of Central Farol Peak in the Masherbrum Mountains. In 2006, with Hans Mitterer and Ueli Steck, he made the first ascent of the north face of Gasherbrum II East from China, a climb described at the time as one of the finest achievements in the Karakoram. By thirty he had summited five eight-thousanders on eleven expeditions, working as a landscape gardener between trips and training as an alpine guide. He disappeared with Gerfried Goschl and Nisar Hussain Sadpara during a winter attempt on Gasherbrum I, and no trace of them was ever found.