Òscar Cadiach i Puig (born 1952 in Barcelona) is a Spanish mountaineer. He has climbed all the 14 eight-thousanders.Success on Gasherbrum I, 8000ers.com, retrieved 4 April 2014
Life Cadiach grew up in Tarragona.Oscar Cadiach , oscarcadiach.com, retrieved 4 April 2014 At age 14 he became interested in mountain climbing and by 22 he was working as an instructor at the Escola Catalana d’Alta Muntanya (‚Catalan high mountains school‘).
In the 1980s he started to climb the eight-thousanders with the Nanga Parbat being the first summit to be reached in 1984. In 1985 he climbed Mount Everest, where Cadiach managed to climb the technically difficult Second Step unaided for the first time. In 2013 he climbed his 13th eight-thousander, the Gasherbrum I.
Besides he also traveled to America and Africa. He also worked as a photographer and took part in several documentary productions. In the documentary Al Filo de lo Imposible he took the role of George Mallory. For the Catalan TV program El Cim at TV3 he led six rather inexperienced young climbers to the summit of Aconcagua in 2003.
Climbing of eight-thousanders Cadiach has climbed the eight-thousanders in the following order:Los 14 ochomiles , oscarcadiach.com, retrieved 4 April 2014
Nanga Parbat (8126 m) on 07.08.1984 Mount Everest (8848 m) on 28.08.1985, second climb on 17.05.1993 Shishapangma (8027 m) on 04.10.1993 Cho Oyu (8201 m) on 29.09.1996, second climb on 04.05.1997 Makalu (8462 m) on 19.05.1998 Gasherbrum II (8035 m) on 07.07.1999 Lhotse (8516 m) on 23.05.2001 Manaslu (8163 m) on 04.10.2011 Annapurna (8091 m) on 06.05.2012 Dhaulagiri (8167 m) on 25.05.2012 K2 (8611 m) on 31.07.2012 Kangchenjunga (8586 m) on 20.05.2013 Gasherbrum I (8068 m) on 29.07.2013 Broad Peak (8047 m) on 27.07.2017
See also List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
References
Further reading Eduard Sallent: El camí dels estels: una novel·la basada en Òscar Cadiach. Desnivel, 2012, .
External links Official website oscarcadiach.com Oscar Cadiach's Blog