Òscar Cadiach

Òscar Cadiach i Puig is a Spanish mountaineer, born in Barcelona in 1952, who has climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders. He grew up in Tarragona, became interested in mountain climbing at fourteen and by twenty-two was working as an instructor at the Escola Catalana d'Alta Muntanya. His first eight-thousander was Nanga Parbat in 1984, and in 1985 he climbed Mount Everest, where he managed the technically difficult Second Step unaided for the first time. He climbed his thirteenth, Gasherbrum I, in 2013 and finished the list with K2. He has also worked as a photographer, appeared in documentaries such as Al filo de lo imposible, and in 2003 led six inexperienced young climbers to the summit of Aconcagua for a Catalan television programme.