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Late in the evening on Saturday 16 January, the ski and climbing profile Øystein Stangeland (51) was reported missing by his partner after a trip to the summit in Kattfjordeidet, 30 minutes from the city center of Tromsø .
Since Stangeland disappeared, exploration conditions at Kattfjordeidet have been difficult due to weather and darkness. There is a great danger of landslides in the area, and several landslides have also been observed.
Man found dead
On Tuesday, January 19, the police approached to look for an alleged dead person.
On Wednesday, a 51-year-old man was found dead in a landslide at Trollskarvatnet in Kattfjordeidet in Tromsø.
– The deceased has not been formally identified, but the police assume that it is the missing Øystein Stangeland who has been found dead, the police write in a press release.
FJELLVANT: Øystein Stangeland at K2 in 2008. Photo: Lars Nessa
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Experienced
Stangeland was a highly experienced mountaineer and skier and has been an active part of the environment in Tromsø for several decades, Nordlys writes.
Among other things, he was on an expedition to the world’s second highest mountain, K2, twice during his outdoor career. In the latter, in 2008, Lars Nessa and Cecilie Skog were also present.
Skog and Nessa became the first Norwegians to reach the top of K2 that day.
Cecilie Skog’s husband, Rolf Bae, lost his life on the current K2 trip in 2008. Ten other climbers were also killed when several of the mountain’s ropes came loose, according to an incident report.
On Instagram, Cecilie Skog remembers her hiking partner.
Crew on land
Police, along with volunteer aid teams and other emergency response agents, searched the area from the air. The crews were subsequently deployed on the ground.
Police worked on the road based on various hypotheses about what might have happened to Stangeland, hoping to find him alive.
Stangeland started climbing in the early 1990s. He has worked for many years as an industrial climber in the North Sea, according to Norsk Klatring.
He was also part of the Rogaland Alpine Rescue Group from 2002 to 2010.
