Mountain Village
Find the Way to the Solarii Base
Squeeze through the small gap to reach the Mountain Descent Base Camp and listen to Lara's Journal: Ancient Guardians. Continue to the bridge and jump into the water to the left to find and light the ninth Statue. Now jump into the water and run the opposite direction, under the bridge, to find slew of Salvage, including a container with 50 Salvage. On the opposite bank from the container of salvage, a little off to the right, is the GPS Cache 13. Now return to the base camp and rope dart the roped tree to reach a path that leads to the GPS Cache 14. You should be able to see a group of Solarii men from this cliff, but ignore them and jump on the top of the arch to reach the other side of the path for some Salvage and the final Statue.
Take out the Solarii men below you and then drop down and rope dart across the gap and zipline across to find the GPS Cache 15 off to the right. Blow open the boarded doorway and continue inside for a scene.
Descend Down the Mountain to the Solarii Base
While Sam may need our help, there are some things we need to finish in the Mountain Village now that we have the Shotgun. Start by using the wood planks to climb on top of the bell and jump to the second floor of the current house to find a Food Cash and the Ancient Scrolls - Hoshi: At Her Side document. Drop down and find the doorway that is boarded up and shoot it to return to the Mountain Village.
Using the base camp, fast travel to the Village Overlook Base Camp and then head down the steps and zipline to enter the building and shoot the boards blocking the Ancient Scrolls - General: The Oath document. Other than a few salvage in the cliff hut directly below the wolf cave you should now have everything for the Mountain Village complete.
| Backtracking Since we are cleaing previous areas up, you may remember that at the Mountain Temple we could not get some Salvage in a netting because of the waterfall. Now, with the Fire Striker, we can Fast Travel to the Mountan Temple Base Camp and drop down the waterfall and head through the small crack to get the salvage. |
When you are ready to advance, return to the house with the bell where you got Sam's distress call and follow the southeast path and zipline into a house. Carefully climb up and wait for the men to to puncture to fuel tank and shoot the lantern to kill at least 2 of the 3 and finish any survivors off.
There are two paths here, one is more offensive and the other is more defensive, but neither should pose much of a problem. Make your way down the hill, killing any enemies you encounter, and then enter the river.
Mountain Descent
Unfortunately, the river current is too strong and Lara find herself falling down the river toward very deadly bits of debris. When Lara does finally come to a halt, she will find herself in a very dangerous position and you will need to quickly deploy the parachute by pressing Square/X and then O/B. Now spend you time doding the tree branches until Lara is safely on solid ground again and gains 100 XP.
