Hunt for City trader lost on Arctic Greenland trek

FRIENDS of a London investment banker who has been missing in Greenland for 13 days today appealed for help in the search.

Romeo Cheung was last seen on July 14 and was due to return to the UK three days later, but he never appeared.

The Imperial College graduate, 27, was travelling alone and hiking the 100-mile “Arctic Circle trail” when he vanished.

As his family arrived in Greenland to help the search, friends appealed to anyone who might have seen him to come forward.

Ma Ada wrote on Facebook: “For those of you in Denmark or Greenland, pls help us if you’ve seen him ... pls spread hence more people can see.” Another friend, Lixin Cao, added: “God bless Romeo Cheung! Please can anyone who saw him in Greenland help with information!” Mr Cheung, who works for Canada’s RBC Capital Markets in the City, told his Hong Kong-based family he was also doing a helicopter tour to visit glaciers and made contact with them just before he boarded.

He is believed to have vanished after doing the helicopter tour and while making his way on foot from Sisimiut to Kangerlussuaq, which can take between nine and 11 days.

The trader, originally from Hong Kong, had apparently had some of his luggage lost by the airline with which he was travelling to Greenland. But according to friends he still had a tent and food with him when he arrived in the country on July 8.

Local authorities have launched an air and land search for Mr Cheung in the autonomous Danish territory.

Together with the Danish National Police, the airline Air Greenland is co-ordinating the search-and-rescue operation using helicopters as well as teams on foot.

The police today appealed for anyone who saw Mr Cheung to contact them.

He was last seen at a hut where he spent the night. He was wearing glasses, a yellow jacket and carrying a small orange backpack.

Mr Cheung, described as a maths wizard, studied at Imperial College Business School in London in 2012 before launching his career in the UK as a trader with Gambit Research.

He has been a structured product trader at RBC for the past two years and four months.