ONE ROOM CHALLENGE 2021 - HIMALAYA

Level by Zolee

Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth, assisted by steven35175's video walk

Before beginning you have a choice between two different playing outfits. Swim up S and follow the icicle-ridden passage to a hub room. Continue straight N, swim up and left and down for SECRET #1, a NOSTALGIA IGLU. Swim back and stay left until you reach an underwater lever that opens a door in the hub room. Go back, turn right and then left into the hub room and left again through the opened door. Follow the passage, squeezing through a lower triangular opening, come to an open area where some icicles fall from the ceiling and swim up for air.

Pull out W, loop around right and climb the crate to access the E wall ladder. Climb up, shift right, drop down and pull the chain to open a door. Get back down, run S past the water hole and pull up right onto the stacked crates. Face NW and side flip right into the E alcove (for some reason Lara doesn't want to jump directly there). Vault up S, jump up to grab the ceiling and monkey swing to the SE platform. Drop down for the PISTOLS and get back down to the floor.

Climb the stacked crates once again and shoot the W barrier. Go across the metal walkway and slide down W. Go up SW to find a pushblock. Move it two times W (that's about the extent of your mobility), hop down W to the lower floor and find another pushpiece in the shallow trench. Pull it N as far as you can and push it W into an alcove. Turn around and run E until you see a third pushpiece to your left with a goddess design. Shoot the crates in the trench to get them out of the way and move the piece all the way around onto the marked tile. An underwater door opens somewhere.

Turn right and run toward the NE corner of the large building. Behind the small shrouded structure is another NOSTALGIA IGLU for SECRET #2. Go around to the NW corner of the same building, climb up onto another shrouded structure and activate the N jump switch to lower a nearby block. Get down, find the NW pushpiece and pull it S along the channel as far as you can. Push it into the E alcove and go across the room to the SE corner. Pull up E onto the sloped ice ledge and back flip onto the stacked crates. Turn around, hang right from the edge, pull up, reverse roll and take a tricky running jump E over the ice ledge onto the other walkway.

Hop down left, go N to the sloped wooden walkway and jump E to the ladder. Climb up, shift right, drop down and leave the chain along. Face N and jump up to grab the ceiling. Monkey swing to the NE corner and activate the jump switch there. A door opens. Get down to the floor, go back S and jump into that E water hole. Swim N, follow the passage to the W wall, turn left and watch out for falling icicles as you grab the NOSTALGIA IGLU for SECRET #3. Go back to the N wall, turn left and pull the underwater lever around the corner to open a door in the open (dry) area.

Go back, take the first left, then another left, follow to where you can swim up for air and pull out W into the open area. You hear the familiar "hut, hut" cries of Arctic ninjas, two of them to be exact, so deal with them before proceeding. Go S and climb up onto the W walkway, jump over the ice ledge and climb up on that SW pushblock you moved earlier. Take a running jump W that's much more difficult than it needs to be (a curved running jump worked for me, go figure) to grab the column.

Pull up and hop up SW onto the higher crate to activate blade traps. Face N, jump up to grab the ceiling and monkey swing past the blades and the opened door, drop down and go around the corner past another opened door to face an opening and a slope. Hop onto the slope to slide down and end the level.