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"It was a good day for us with a very, very bad ending," recalls Austrian climber Stephan Keck who was on the same expedition as Scottish climber Rick Allen who died while attempting to summit Pakistan's K2. "This was the biggest challenge because we don't know if we can climb down the mountain, we lost all our equipment." Known as "the savage mountain", K2 has harsh conditions -- winds can blow at more than 200 kilometres per hour (124 miles per hour) and temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit). Unlike the world's highest peak Mount Everest, which has been scaled by thousands of climbers young and old, K2 is much less travelled. SOUNDBITES