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Kazuya Hiraide, the Japanese winner of the Piolet d'Or three times, was aiming to climb the unclimbed West Wall, the most difficult route on K2, as the culmination of his climbing career.
The main features of the West Wall of K2 are:
- Steep wall with an elevation difference of about 3,200m
- Complex intertwining of rocks and glaciers
- Extremely high risk of rockfall and avalanches
- Extremely cold weather and strong winds
- No space for helicopters to land
- Thin oxygen due to high altitude
- Temperatures of -30°C and violent storms
- Risk of huge avalanches and crevasses
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