Chapter 17: Mountaineering

Follow your new friend into the ice cave, off a short drop, and across a gap to a rope. Wait for him to throw to use it as a grapple, then leap to the rope and swing across the chasm, then climb down the nearby ladder.

Treasure: Tibetan Ritual Blade Having climb down the first ladder, turn around and check out the right-side of the cliff's edge for a treasure.

After climbing down the ladder, proceed into the ice tunnel and throw a couple of small gaps, up to a ledge. Drop to the floor to discover a rope. Follow your buddy back up to the ledge and wait for him to secure the rope in place, allowing you to swing to the other side.

Treasure: Clay Deity Head Upon reaching the second rope, use it to swing to a ledge on the right for a treasure. If you're having trouble reaching it, let go of the control stick and let the rope come to a stop before, then start swinging toward the ledge, jumping at the highest part of the swing.

Follow your friend across a few jumps (and another rope!), past a collapsing walkway. After pulling yourself up, continue onward to a broken ladder. Let your friend toss you to a short path above.

After being tossed to the path, leap to the nearby wall on the right and follow it as far left as you can (dropping from ledge to ledge) before making a leap to a snowy ledge and follow it to a rope.

Treasure: Bronze Chenrezig Statue After your friend tosses you up the broken ladder, continue onward until you reach the hanging rope. Don't climb it--instead, drop to a ledge just behind it for a treasure.

Climb the rope and leap to a nearby platform in the center, then to another in the wall. Sidle along it left, before dropping to the ground below.

Hop to another platform toward the center, then approach the ledge to catch your friend as he jumps toward you. Now wait for him to setup another rope and use it to cross the chasm.

Follow your friend up some more ledges, a tall wall, and across another gap to discover some mutilated wolfs. Push forward across the snowy platforms to a cliff wall you can climb.

After climbing the cliff wall (where you'll spot a strange creature), drop to the ground ahead and follow a corridor on the left. As you do, some rocks will fall behind you, blocking you in.

Treasure: Skull Cap Drum After the boulders fall behind you, blocking the path, follow the stream to the cliff, then make a right to find a treasure at the end of the ridge.

After the boulders block you in, climb the ridges ahead and follow the wall (jumping when necessary) to a section you can climb. Leap to a ledge on the left at the top, then to snowy platform just ahead. From here, leap over to a thin ledge, just before a pit containing a ladder.

Treasure: Silver Needle Case After leaping to the thin ledge just before the ladder, look for a treasure on the left.

Drop into the pit and grab the gun from the corpse on the right--use it to shoot the nearby ice barricade, allowing you to rejoin your friend.

However, before you have the chance to do much of anything, he'll be mauled by some strange creature. Immediately take aim and fill him full of holes until he leaves him alone and comes for you instead. At this point, you'll want to stay as far away from the creature as possible, while shooting him whenever you get the chance. The easiest way to do this is to run circles around the room (in whichever direction is away from the creature) while firing at him while on the move. When the creature stops moving briefly, now's your chance to take aim and deal some serious damage--aim for his head when you can. Now if the creature grabs you at any point, one of two things will happen: Either you'll be able to take aim and fire a few shots until he frees you (aim for the head), or you'll have to tap the buttons displayed on-screen to escape (it's always "Triangle" followed by "Square"). After inflicting enough damage, the creature will swap your weapon away, but thankfully your friend will come to the rescue!

After the battle, follow your best friend back into the previous room and give him a lift to the ladder. Follow him up via the box he drops then trail him across a few platforms until you reach a snowy ridge.

Treasure: Bronze Stupa Ornament After reaching the snowy ridge where you find the box connected to the rope (shortly after the creature battle), follow it left and leap to a small platform where you'll find this treasure.l

Upon landing on the snowy ridge, look to the long chasm to the right. See the box attached to a rope teetering along the ledge? Shoot it to knock it down to drop the rope, using it to cross to the other side. Now just climb up the very obvious ridges to a ladder, then onto a stairway leading to the next chapter.