Restoring photo with severe water damage

A friend of mine asked me to restore the attached photo (of her dad) which has suffered severe water damage (I have erased the gentleman since I have not asked for permission to share the photo with others). Fortunately the person's face is intact but everything else is damaged. The peak in the background is the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps and the photographer chose this clever angle so that the person is almost as large as the peak. I know how to use spot healing and the clone stamp but my biggest problem is that the outline of the peak has been obliterated. I tried boosting the contrast with a layer and had only limited success on the right but none on the left.
My question two-fold:
1) could you suggest a method to reveal more of the mountain outline and
2) if guessing is the only choice left, what is the best way to draw the edges of the mountain peak
In passing I mentioned to my friend the possibility of inserting her father in a stock photo of the Matterhorn but "a fake" just won't do because this photo holds very special meaning for her.
Any advice you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I revised my steps and added more info about the gradient. Hope this helps.
1. Add a blank layer and apply a Layers Mask to it.
2. Select the mountain.
3. Activate the mask and fill the selection with black. The mask now shows the black silhouette of the mountain.
4. Important! Delete the selection (Ctrl-D).
Now to create the sky using a gradient. The purpose of the gradient is to create a natural-looking sky ranging from light gray at the bottom to dark at the top.
5. Set the Foreground and Background color chips (at bottom of toolbar) to light and dark grey respectively. I used RGB values 220,220,220 for the Foreground, and 160,160,160 for the Background.
6. In the Gradient Editor select the Foreground to Background Preset, and on the tool options bar choose Linear Gradient.
7. Click the layer's thumbnail to activate the layer, and draw the gradient vertically upwards. Because of the mask the gradient does not cover the mountain. The degree of the light-to-dark transition depends on the gradient's start and end points, so you might have to redraw the gradient several times until it looks natural. You can redraw over the existing gradient; no need to start from scratch. In this example I drew the gradient starting from the center of the picture all the way to the top.

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