Fifteen-year-old Richard Kalani Vierra left home in Waiʻanae on the morning of Saturday, July 5, 2014, for a solo hike on the Kamaileuna Ridge Trail. He started around 6:30 a.m. and placed one phone call to his mother at about 11:30 a.m. saying he was heading back down the trail. That call is the last confirmed contact anyone has had with him.

Kalani was described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark blue shirt, shorts and shoes, and carrying a light blue backpack. Search-and-rescue teams, family and community volunteers searched the rugged Waianae mountain range and the trail area. Despite repeated efforts, no trace of him or his belongings was found.

Kalani was a student and athlete who practiced Jiu-Jitsu and wanted to join the Marines after high school. His disappearance remains an open, active missing person investigation with the Honolulu Police Department.

If anyone has information about Kalani’s movements on July 5, 2014, or recalls seeing him on the Kamaileuna Ridge Trail that day, please come forward.