You are prepared to do the skill. You use your pick to ease the climbing. The rope will come in handy. You start climbing towards east. You feel like you just got slightly better in mountaineering. HP:756(897)[] SP:50(50)[] EP:352(378)[-19] EXP:86289[] You are strained to your limits, but this is great! You are strained to your limits, but this is great! You reach the peak, woohah! fff Loc: Mountains [225,264] in central Rothikgen fffff/v^^ Exits: west, northwest, southwest fff^ff/^^^^d? fff^^^+^^^^^^^^ The mighty mountains tower skywards, passing through fff^^^|^^^^^^^^ clouds above. The stony wall here is virtually yyf^^!^|*^^b^^^^^ impassable. Steep cliffs prevent scaling unless one has yy^%^^|^^^^yhh^ sophisticated tools and lots of skill - and even then yy^^h^|^^^y^^Hh the effort would be perilous. The highest parts of the yy^yy|yyT^^^^ mountains are forever covered in ice and snow, and many yyy|y^^^^ valleys and passes have glaciers that never melt. The |R^ weather is always dire, with freezing wind that is stormy more often than not, and hail showers and blizzards which can lay waste to vast regions.